Ansel Adams
- Introduction
- Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – 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 an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed in exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography. Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 12, 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. Adams was a key advisor in establishing 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.
- Wikidata
- Q60809
- Introduction
- Adams began to photograph professionally in 1930, and in 1932 was a founding member of the f/64 group in San Francisco, California. In 1940 he created the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, along with Beaumont Newhall and David McAlpin. In 1941 Adams began to photograph landscapes. From 1942 to 1944 Adams acted as the photographic adviser to the United States Army. In 1962 Adams moved to Carmel, California where he founded the Friends of Photography in 1967. He continued to document the landscape of the American West. American photographer.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Photographer
- Names
- Ansel Adams, Ansel Easton Adams
- Ulan
- 500026108
Exhibitions
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Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures
Feb 9–Sep 19, 2020
MoMA
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American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe
Aug 17, 2013–Jan 26, 2014
MoMA
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Photography Rotation 8
May 13, 2011–Mar 12, 2012
MoMA
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Photography Collection: Rotation 6
Aug 7, 2009–Mar 22, 2010
MoMA
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Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West
Mar 29–Jun 8, 2009
MoMA
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Ansel Adams has
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Ansel Adams Banner Peak and Thousand Island at Sunset 1923
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Ansel Adams Mount Clarence King, Kings Canyon National Park, California 1924
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Ansel Adams Fall in Upper Tenaya Canyon, Yosemite National Park, California c. 1920
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Ansel Adams New Church, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico c. 1929
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Ansel Adams Sierra Meadow 1930
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Ansel Adams Arrangement 1932
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Ansel Adams Boards and Thistles 1932
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Ansel Adams Annette Rosenshine, San Francisco, California 1932
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Ansel Adams New Mexico 1933
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Ansel Adams Museum Storeroom 1933
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Ansel Adams Early California Gravestone 1933
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Ansel Adams Architecture, Early California Cemetery, San Francisco 1934
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Ansel Adams Barn, Redwood City, California 1936
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Ansel Adams Clouds, Sierra Nevada, California 1936
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Ansel Adams Owens Valley, California 1937
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Ansel Adams Desert Flower 1937
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Ansel Adams Phyllis Bottome c. 1932
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Ansel Adams Monument Valley, Utah 1937
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Ansel Adams Aspens, Dawn, Autumn, Dolores River Canyon, Colorado 1937
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Ansel Adams Winter, Yosemite Valley, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Courthouse, Bridgeport, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Armature of Monumental Sculpture 1938
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Ansel Adams Detail of Redwood Log, North Coast, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Autumn, Yosemite Valley, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Barbecue, Hornitos, California 1938
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Ansel Adams Alfred Stieglitz at his desk at An American Place 1938
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Ansel Adams Dogwood Blossoms 1938
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Ansel Adams Mount Wynne, Kings Canyon National Park, California c. 1933
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Ansel Adams Autumn, Yosemite Valley, California 1939
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Ansel Adams Autumn, Yosemite Valley 1939
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Ansel Adams Barn Fence, Cape Cod 1939
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Ansel Adams Barnacles, Cape Cod 1939
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Ansel Adams Barnstable, Massachusetts 1939
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