Ansel Easton Adams, born in 1902 in San Francisco, USA, to Charles and Olive Adams. At the age of twelve, it was obvious that school is not the place for Ansel, the confinement imposed by the classroom and teachers, was a lot more than he could stand, you can say that it was above his threshold. This caused him to deliberately burst in laughter repeatedly in the classroom in an attempt to perhaps undermine the authority that teachers have in the classroom. The repetition of these bursts of laughter and "the undisguised contempt for the inept ramblings of his teachers", as one biographer put it, caused the end of his formal education years. The next best thing in such situations is home-schooling, and this was exactly what was ahead for little Ansel, algebra, English classics and Greek were materials that he was taught at home.
In studying Mr. Adams' education, one might observe no relation what so ever with Photography, this true, but was went on during these years, had a great......

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