Ansel Adams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ansel Adams

American photographer and environmentalist

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-0018

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 22-Apr-1984

Profession: photographer, writer, pianist, university teacher, environmentalist, mountaineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Ansel Adams

  • Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was a 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.

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