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Ansel Adams
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Born	Ansel Easton Adams (1902-02-20)February 20, 1902 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	April 22, 1984(1984-04-22) (aged 82) Monterey, California, U.S.
Resting place	Ashes placed on the summit of Mount Ansel Adams in California's Ansel Adams Wilderness area^[1]
Known for	Photography and conservationism
Movement	Group f/64
Spouse	\n Virginia Rose Best (m. 1928)
Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom 1980

Elected	Board of Directors, Sierra Club
Patron(s)	Albert M. Bender
Memorial(s)	Ansel Adams Wilderness Mount Ansel Adams
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Website	anseladams.org anseladams.com

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 \u2013 April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating \"pure\" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.\n

Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 14, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.\n

Adams was a key advisor in the founding and establishment of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department's first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.\n

v t e Ansel Adams
Photographs	\n Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River (1921) \n Monolith, the Face of Half Dome (1927) \n Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park (c. 1937) \n Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) \n Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park (1942) \n The Tetons and the Snake River (1942) \n Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California (1944) \n Aspens, Northern New Mexico (1958) \n
Portfolios	\n Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras (1927) \n
Books	\n Taos Pueblo (1931) (with Mary Hunter Austin) \n Born Free and Equal (1944) \n
Related	\n Zone System \n Group f/64 \n Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002) \n Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography \n Ansel Adams Award (The Wilderness Society) \n Ansel Adams Wilderness \n The Land of Little Rain (1950 edition) \n

v t e Laureates of the Hasselblad Award
1980s	\n Lennart Nilsson (1980) \n Ansel Adams (1981) \n Henri Cartier-Bresson (1982) \n Manuel \u00c1lvarez Bravo (1984) \n Irving Penn (1985) \n Ernst Haas (1986) \n Hiroshi Hamaya (1987) \n \u00c9douard Boubat (1988) \n Sebasti\u00e3o Salgado (1989) \n
1990s	\n William Klein (1990) \n Richard Avedon (1991) \n Josef Koudelka (1992) \n Sune Jonsson (1993) \n Susan Meiselas (1994) \n Robert H\u00e4usser (1995) \n Robert Frank (1996) \n Christer Str\u00f6mholm (1997) \n William Eggleston (1998) \n Cindy Sherman (1999) \n
2000s	\n Boris Mikhailov (2000) \n Hiroshi Sugimoto (2001) \n Jeff Wall (2002) \n Malick Sidib\u00e9 (2003) \n Bernd and Hilla Becher (2004) \n Lee Friedlander (2005) \n David Goldblatt (2006) \n Nan Goldin (2007) \n Graciela Iturbide (2008) \n Robert Adams (2009) \n
2010s	\n Sophie Calle (2010) \n Walid Raad (2011) \n Paul Graham (2012) \n Joan Fontcuberta (2013) \n Miyako Ishiuchi (2014) \n Wolfgang Tillmans (2015) \n Stan Douglas (2016) \n Rineke Dijkstra (2017) \n Oscar Mu\u00f1oz (2018) \n Daid\u014d Moriyama (2019) \n
2020s	\n Alfredo Jaar (2020) \n Dayanita Singh (2022) \n Carrie Mae Weems (2023) \n Ingrid Pollard (2024) \n

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Early life

Birth

Early childhood

Early education

Youth

Sierra Club and piano work

Photographic career

1920s

Pictorialism

Monolith

1930s

Pure photography

Sierra Nevada

Desert Southwest

1940s

Mural Project

Moonrise

World War II

1950s

Later career

Death and legacy

Contributions and influence

Landscapes of the American West

Group f/64

The Zone System

Photography department at MoMA

Environmental protection

Awards and honors

Photographs

Color images

Notable photographs

Published works

Camera equipment

See also

Explanatory notes

Citations

General and cited references

Further reading

Biographies

Photographic books

Young adult and children's books

Documentaries

External links

What happened with Ansel Adams on 22 April, 1984