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THE PRECINCT MASTER

In Memory Always: My Brother Art:

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ART, THE GENTLE GIANT … Son, Brother, Father, and friend to so many. So young, so good, and so loved … that you have seen fit to honor his memory by filling this Church with a gathering of unexpected numbers and love to say Good-bye.

Our family is assembled here in this moment of disbelief, wife Bernie, sons Paul and Mark, the three surviving brothers of our very personal brotherhood and our Mother who has for so long loved and understood the diversity of her sons. ART, A SIMPLE MAN, being the easiest to understand always.

I have stood in such places before to say good-bye to friends and colleagues but never with the shared profound anguish and sorrow that fills this church … on this day.

There is no satisfactory answer to the question of, WHY ART, the Best of the Brothers, is the first to pass. I am the first to admit that Art was a better man than I. Brother Art was the GENTLE GIANT OF OUR BROTHERHOOD who knew not meanness of spirit, nor how to knowingly wrong another.

ART WAS A SIMPLE MAN. There were those who would have had Art find some other, more lucrative employment. He would not … and he was right. Art’s life was a love affair with his tools and what he could do with his hands. Art took pride in his craftsmanship and found satisfaction in his creations. Art loved what he did. There are too few who experience such a life.

As a parting gesture Art saw to it that our Father’s hammer was buried with him … and so it is that his Sons and Brothers have to it that Art’s hammer, whistle and baseball indicator have been placed in the carpenter’s cherry wood casket and out to eternal rest with him.

ART WAS A SIMPLE MAN. Art’s life was not a matter of accumulating wealth or possessions, not a matter of ambition or seeking recognition, not aspiring to positions of leadership, influence or power. He gladly left those distractions and complications for others.

Art’s needs were few and beautiful in their simple eloquence; a simple eloquence that enveloped his life with a special grace recognized by all knew him. All Art needed was a good meal, good tools, a good truck, a well built Soap Box Derby racer, and a well-refereed or umpired game, the joy, friendships and camaraderie of sport … and a loving family. We honor our Brother this day for the simple, healthy loving perspective that he brought to this life.

ART WAS A SIMPLE MAN … with simple values. Art’s work ethic had the character of a bye-gone era and his devotion to family will never be questioned. Testimony to that love and devotion will live on with his wife Bernie and Sons Mark and Paul whom any man would be proud to call sons. When it came to family … make no mistake … BROTHER ART DID IT RIGHT.

Art’s sense of humor was a joyful and totally disarming sense of humor that emanated from his heart and his uncomplicated perception of life and people. Off the top of his head Art could do with this driven brother that which few can do, bring a smile to my face or move me to laughter with a simple one-liner. With his arm around me, messing up my hair, he never let me leave this state without the admonishment, “Ed relax, life’s too short”….. HE WAS RIGHT.

ART WAS A SIMPLE MAN. A man who gave so much to others of his time and talents. If he saw a friend in need, help was given without hesitation, or second thought. His love of people, and their love for him, was borne out last night in the numbers gathered in the unbroken line of last night, of those who waited to say good-bye to the Teddy Bear Brother.

Among our world’s collection of clichés is the phrase: “What you see is what you get.” In Art’s simplicity of living, that phrase never had a better example. ART WAS A SIMPLE MAN and simply did not have the time, inclination or appetite for conducting his life for the sake of appearances, pretense or posturing. What you saw was what you got; what he said was what he meant … there was no need to read between the lines with Brother Art.

We are told that the pain of this day will diminish with time. For the first time in my life I have cause to question that notion. Should it be true, it is equally true that Art’s loving legacy will provide unfading memories of a BROTHER with simple exemplary values and unselfish love.

Our lives are diminished by his loss. No greater tribute can be uttered, because there are so few mortals of whom this statement can be made with integrity.

Art’s love of life, people, his craft and his family were so simple, so right, so sincere, that my wife’s reaction when learning of Art’s crisis summed up the moment best when she simply said: “Oh no, not sweet Art!”

To our Brother Art, THE GENTLE GIANT, TEDDY BEAR BROTHER, we say good-bye to your mortal being … but the loving memory of ART will remain until we close our eyes for the last time.

GOOD-BYE, BROTHER. GOOD-BYE, ART. WE HAVE LOVED YOU ALWAYS.

- Eulogy Delivered By Ed Dickau, November 19, 1999

--AN ANSEL ADAMS TRIBUTE--

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Our History

SINCE 1902 In the summer of 1901, a landscape painter and political cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle by the name of Harry Best took an excursion to Yosemite Valley to camp and paint. Little did he know that this trip would have, indirectly, such an impact on so many, or that we, his descendants, would be telling this story now, nearly a century later.

That summer he met Anne Rippey, a beautiful young woman working as an assistant in one of the photography studios in the Valley. After a whirlwind courtship, the two married on July 28 at the base of Bridal Veil Fall. After the ceremony, they stopped the incoming stagecoach to have everyone celebrate with them. (Rumor has it that several men were courting Ms. Rippey that summer, and Harry' s success lay in his persistence and having sent back to San Francisco for an engagement ring).

That winter, Harry applied to the U.S. Army, Yosemite administrators at the time, for a permit to operate a studio business. The following summer, in 1902, the Bests opened their studio in a tent in Yosemite Valley.

Thereafter, Harry and Anne returned to Yosemite each summer, building the original Studio in the Old Yosemite Village in 1904. Best' s Studio was a family affair from the earliest. Not only was it a husband and wife team producing and selling paintings, painted photographs, and photo finishing, but the Studio also represented Arthur and Alice Best, Harry's brother and sister-in-law.

Harry was successful both as a businessman and painter: Best's Studio is the last of several artist's studios that were established around the turn of the century, and paintings of his have hung in the White House and San Francisco' s Bohemian Club for many years.

His, and the company's, success is attributed to a deep commitment to Yosemite National Park and the desire to share and create a positive Park experience for the visitors.

Harry and Anne' s daughter Virginia was born in 1904, and grew up spending summers in Yosemite until 1926 when the family took up full time residence in the Valley. In those years, and for a long time thereafter, Best's Studio was the social center of the Valley .

It housed the only piano in the Park and the lovely singing voice of Virginia Best.

Ansel Adams first came to Yosemite National Park in 1916 and returned in 1920 as a caretaker for the Sierra Club' s LeConte Lodge, still planning a career as a concert pianist.

This goal brought him in close contact with the Bests, and Ansel soon found himself visiting the Studio as much for the company as to practice the piano. On January 2, 1928, Ansel Adams and Virginia Best were married in the newly constructed Best's Studio in the "new village" in Yosemite Valley.

The addition of Ansel Adams to the family had a major impact on the business. At the time of the wedding, Ansel's career as a photographer was just beginning. He had published, with the help of Albert Bender, his first portfolio in 1927, "Parmelian Prints of the High Sierra".

The Studio and Ansel had a symbiotic business relationship: Ansel providing high quality photographic material that appealed to visitors, and the Studio providing an outlet for his work and on-going financial support to a struggling artist.

In this vein, The Ansel Adams Gallery continues to seek out and represent promising contemporary artists.

Ansel and Virginia had two children, Michael, born in 1933 in Yosemite, and Anne, born in 1935 in San Francisco. The family split its time between San Francisco, where Ansel still maintained the family home, and Yosemite.

During the Second World War the family moved to Yosemite year round, and the children grew up in this idyllic spot. Ansel and Virginia published a children' s story book, Michael and Anne in Yosemite , which still occasionally becomes available on the secondary market.

Harry Best passed away in 1936, and Virginia inherited the business that she had been running for some years.

Around this time, Ansel and Virginia conscientiously shifted the focus of the Studio to offer merchandise and services that fit with an ethic to respect the landscape and draw inspiration and creativity from the beauty of the environment. This ethic continues to guide The Ansel Adams Gallery, and, while the standard is high, we think we have been successful in finding and developing artwork and services that fit this ethic.

Reading was a life long passion of Virginia's, and her interest embodied itself in a fine selection of books, and the book selection continues to be outstanding and widely complemented. Ansel and Virginia published a number of books, cards, and other photographic related items.

In the early 1950's, Ansel initiated the Yosemite Special Edition Photograph series , a series of Ansel's photographs printed under his supervision and differentiated from his exhibition prints by price and presentation. The Ansel Adams Gallery continues to offer the Yosemite Special Edition, printed by Alan Ross .

The Gallery is the exclusive source for these beautiful photographs printed from Ansel Adams' original negatives. The Photography Workshop program began in 1940, and was one of the first photographic education programs in the country.

The original workshops were one week long with several instructors, and groups of 10 to 12 students worked with different instructors in field, classroom, and darkroom sessions. Many participants have told us that the workshop program with Ansel and the other professional photographers was a life shaping experience.

Virginia Best Adams operated the Studio until 1971, when she and Ansel turned the company over to Michael and Jeanne Adams, their son and daughter-in-law. During this time, the name of the business was changed to The Ansel Adams Gallery to reflect the primary focus of photography, and the powerful legacy that Ansel had in photography and environmental conservation.

Photography and conservation are embodied in the person and work of Ansel Adams, and it is the purpose of the Gallery to encourage the values, efforts, and sense of awe that Ansel held and personified.

Ansel AdamsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThe Tetons - Snake River (1942) by Ansel AdamsAnsel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley.

Adams was also the author of numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals (The Camera, The Negative and The Print).

He co-founded the photographic association Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham. He and Fred Archer are credited with creating the zone system, a technique which allows photographers to translate the light they see into specific densities on negatives and paper, thus giving them better control over finished photographs.

Adams also pioneered the idea of visualization (which he often called 'previsualization', though he later acknowledged that term to be a redundancy) of the finished print based upon the measured light values in the scene being photographed.
Contents1 Life 2 Works 2.1 Notable photographs 2.2 Photographic books 3 See also 4 External links

Farm workers at Manzanar War Relocation Center with Mt. Williamson in the background.

Adams was born in San Francisco, California in an upper-class family. When he was four, he was tossed face-first into a garden wall in an aftershock from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, breaking his nose. His nose was never repaired and appeared crooked for his entire life.

Adams disliked the uniformity of the education system and left school in 1915, at the age of 12 to educate himself.

His original passion was to become a concert pianist, but Adams became interested in photography after seeing Paul Strand's negatives.

Adams long alternated between a career as a concert pianist and one as a photographer. He met his future wife, the camera-shy Virginia Best, in Yosemite.

At age seventeen, Adams joined the Sierra Club, a group dedicated to preserving the natural world's wonders and resources. He remained a member throughout his lifetime and served as a director, as did his wife, Virginia.

Adams was an avid mountaineer in his youth and participated in the club's annual "high trips", and was later responsible for several first ascents in the Sierra Nevada.

It was at Half Dome in 1927 that he first found that he could make photographs that were, in his own words, "...an austere and blazing poetry of the real".

Adams became an environmentalist, and his photographs are a record of what many of these national parks were like before human intervention and travel. His work has promoted many of the goals of the Sierra Club and brought environmental issues to light. Photographs in Adams' limited edition book, Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail, along with his testimony, are credited with helping secure the designation of Sequoia and Kings Canyon as national parks in 1940.

During World War Two Adams worked on creating epic photographic murals for the Department of the Interior.

Adams was distressed by the Japanese American Internment that occurred after the Pearl Harbor attack.

He was given permission to visit the Manzanar War Relocation Center in the Owens Valley, at the foot of Mount Williamson. The resulting photo-essay first appeared in a Museum of Modern Art exhibit, and later was published as Born Free and Equal: Photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California.

In 1952 Adams was one of the founders of the magazine Aperture.In March 1963, Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall accepted a commission from Clark Kerr, then President of the University of California, to produce a series of photographs of the University's campuses to commemorate the centennial celebration of the University. The collection, titled "Fiat Lux" after the University's motto, was published in 1967 and now resides in the Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside.

Adams was the recipient of three Guggenheim fellowships during his career. He was elected in 1966 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1980 Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984 from heart failure aggravated by cancer. When he died he left behind his wife, two children (Michael born August 1933, Anne born 1935) and five grandchildren.

Publishing rights for the Adams' photographs are handled by the trustees of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

The Minarets Wilderness in the Inyo National Forest was renamed the Ansel Adams Wilderness in 1984 in his honor.

Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,760 ft. peak in the Sierra Nevada, was named for him in 1985.

The full archive of Ansel Adams' work can be found at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

WorksEvening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park (1942) by Ansel Adams Adams Church, Taos, Pueblo (1942) by Ansel Adams Notable photographs Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, 1927. Rose and Driftwood, 1932. Clearing Winter Storm, 1940. Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941. Ice on Ellery Lake, Sierra Nevada, 1941. Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox at Canyon de ChellyAspens, New Mexico, 1958. Photographic books Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places, 2005. ISBN 1-59764-069-7 America's Wilderness, 1997.

California, 1997. ISBN 0-8212-2369-0
Yosemite, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2196-5
The National Park Photographs, 1995. ISBN 0-89660-056-4
Photographs of the Southwest, 1994. ISBN 0-8212-0699-0
Ansel Adams: In Color, 1993. ISBN 0-8212-1980-4
Our Current National Parks, 1992.Ansel Adams: Classic Images, 1986. ISBN 0-8212-1629-5
Polaroid Land Photography, 1978. ISBN 0-8212-0729-6
These We Inherit: The Parklands of America, with Nancy Newhall, 1962. This is the American Earth, with Nancy Newhall, 1960. ISBN 0-8212-2182-5
Born Free and Equal, 1944. Spotted Dog Press Technical booksThe Camera, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2184-1
The Negative, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2186-8
The Print, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2187-6
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs ISBN 0-8212-1750-X Charles Hitchcock Adams,
Ansel Adams' father, an amateur astronomer Allied Arts Guild, in Menlo Park, California, where Adams took commercial photographics of artists' work.

Zone system, a unique approach to film exposure and development invented by Ansel Adams and Frederick Scott Archer in 1939 or 1940. Nature photography Wikimedia Commons has media related to:Ansel Adams History of Ansel Adams Ansel Adams (1902–1984)

PBS Documentary: Ansel Adams Transcript of the Ric Burns feature documentary Ansel Adams (2002)

Official Site of Ansel Adams Ansel Adams Gallery

Andrew Smith Gallery Andrew Smith Gallery has original signed Ansel Adams photography

Ansel Adams Memorial Grove A restoration and preservation project of Ansel Adams in San Francisco

American Memory - Ansel Adams "Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar From the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress.

Photo of Ansel Adams

Picturing the Century - Ansel Adams Selection of photos at the National Archives

Records of the National Park Service - Ansel Adams Photographs 226 high-resolution photographs from National Archives Still Picture Branch

Persondata NAME Adams, Ansel Easton

ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTIONAmerican photographer

DATE OF BIRTHFebruary 20, 1902

PLACE OF BIRTHSan Francisco, California

DATE OF DEATHApril 22, 1984PLACE OF DEATH

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams"Categories: 1902 births 1984 deaths American autodidacts American mountain climbers American photographers Deaths from cardiovascular disease Nature photographers People from San Francisco Pioneers of photography Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Sierra Nevada Yosemite

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Black & White Photography Selected works by well known contemporary landscape fine art photographers.

Jeffrey Conley

Henry Gilpin

Patrick Jablonski

Bob Kolbrener

Kerik Kouklis

Roman Loranc

Tom Mallonee

Alan Ross

John Sexton

Color Photography Selected works by well known contemporary landscape fine art photographers.

Annette Bottaro-Walklet

Christopher Burkett

Charles Cramer

Michael Frye

Jeff Grandy

Carol Henry

Joseph Holmes

William Neill

Ted Orland

Robert Turner

Keith S. Walklet

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ED'S PHOTO GALLERY

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The Book "A Different Vision" is not yet completed, the Photo Gallery will begin to contain an increasing number of photos in the text. They will all begin with the prefix "ADV"... Anyone who regularly sends me photos and would like to have some of them Web published in the Gallery need only send me fresh copies of what you would like posted. If you have any questions Email me at:

dickaued@yahoo.com or

ed.dickau@gmail.com .

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