Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park.
One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California.With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs and the work of those to whom he taught the system. Adams primarily used large-format cameras despite their size, weight, setup time, and film cost, because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, which
in turn created the Museum of Modern Art's department of photography. Adams's photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books, making his photographs widely distributed.

Ansel Adams received a number of awards during his lifetime and posthumously, and there have been a few awards named for him.
Adams received a Doctor of Arts from both Harvard and Yale universities. He was awarded the Conservation Service
Award by the Department of Interior in 1968, a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980, the Sierra Club John Muir Award in 1963, and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver in 2007
The Minarets Wilderness in the Inyo National Forest and a 11,760-foot (3,580 m)
 peak therein were renamed the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Mount Ansel Adams respectively in 1985.
The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography was established in
1971, and the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation was established in 1980 by The Wilderness Society.

                                      Notable photographs
The information for each photograph is taken from Adams's 1983 book Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs.
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927.
Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California, 1932.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, 1937.
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, 1940.[80]
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941.
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944.
Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958.
El Capitan, Winter, Sunrise, 1968

Church, Taos Pueblo (1942)

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