Landscape photography

Abstract

This essay evolves about landscape, seascape and cityscape photography, but mostly it is about landscape photography. A few landscape photographers, namely Carleton E Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Stephen Shore and seascape and cityscape photographer Gabrielle Basilico, will subsequently be discussed. In this essay the discussion is arranged according to the birth dates of the photographers. Their history will be discussed for what they did and awards they received. There will also follow a brief discussion of Adams' work for the writer admires his work the most. Ansel Adams wrote that "Perhaps the most important characteristic of my work is what may be called print quality. It is very important that the reproductions be as good as you can possibly get them" (Stillman, 1995:4).