American Experience Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (Season 14, Episode 11)
TV Episode | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Experience

Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (Season 14, Episode 11)

TV Episode | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Few American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime, than Ansel Adams. None has had more profound an impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent, or done more to ...See moreFew American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime, than Ansel Adams. None has had more profound an impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent, or done more to transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. A visionary photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique and a crusader for the environment, Adams would take part in an extraordinary revolution: in photography, and ways of seeing what he called "the continuous beauty of the things that are." His greatest photographs would seek to capture "the instant of revelation -- of timelessness" amidst the evanescence of the natural world. Ansel Adams is the intimate portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist -- for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression, were inextricably connected. ANSEL ADAMS, a ninety-minute documentary film written and directed by Ric Burns, and broadcast on national public television in April 2002, provides an elegant, moving and lyrical portrait of this most eloquent and quintessentially American of photographers. Written by Joshua Mueller See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Josh Hamilton Voice-overs (voice) Voice-overs (voice) See fewer	Eighth Grade (2018)
Barbara Feldon Voice-overs (voice) Voice-overs (voice) See fewer	Get Smart (1965)
Eli Wallach Voice-overs Voice-overs See fewer	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Ansel Adams Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Ben Casey (1961)
David Ogden Stiers Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	MAS*H (1972)