Ansel Adams

(American, 1902–1984)

Ansel Adams was an iconic American photographer known for his awe-inspiring black-and-white photographs of the American West. Carefully composed and technically precise, the artist’s picturesque images of Yosemite National Park are some of the most iconic works in the history of the medium. “Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space,” he once mused. “I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters.” Born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, CA, the artist trained as a concert pianist before turning to photography in 1930. Along with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, Adams formed Group f/64 with the goal of elevating photography to a high art at a time when it was only considered a form of documentation. A committed environmentalist, he traveled throughout the country to capture the grandeur of natural sites. Adams died on April 22, 1984 in Monterey, CA at the age of 82. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others.

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Manly Beacon, Death Valley National Monument, 1955

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Manly Beacon, Death Valley National Monument, 1955

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Land of Little Rain, Lone Pine Peak, Sierra..., 1949

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Land of Little Rain, Lone Pine Peak, Sierra..., 1949

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Death Valley, 1949

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Death Valley, 1949

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Near Altamont Pass, 1949

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Near Altamont Pass, 1949

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Napa Valley, 1949

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Napa Valley, 1949

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Napa Valley, 1949

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Napa Valley, 1949

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In the Owens Valley, 1949

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In the Owens Valley, 1949

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Sierra Nevada, from Near Lone Pine, 1949

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Sierra Nevada, from Near Lone Pine, 1949

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Untitled (California Rolling Hills), 1949

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Untitled (California Rolling Hills), 1949

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Joshua Tree, 1949

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Joshua Tree, 1949

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Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National..., 1942

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Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National..., 1942

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Salt Flats from Dante's View, Death Valley..., 1949

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Salt Flats from Dante's View, Death Valley..., 1949

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Owens Valley Scene, 1949

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Owens Valley Scene, 1949

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Sierra Nevada from Road to Death Valley, 1949

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Sierra Nevada from Road to Death Valley, 1949

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Owens Valley California, 1954

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Owens Valley California, 1954

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Jackson, California, 1949

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Jackson, California, 1949

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Road in Death Valley Late Afternoon, 1949

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Road in Death Valley Late Afternoon, 1949

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Blue Lakes, California, 1949

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Blue Lakes, California, 1949

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Sierra Cascade, 1949

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Sierra Cascade, 1949

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Sierra Nevada East Side from Near Big Pine, 1949

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Sierra Nevada East Side from Near Big Pine, 1949

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Near Bloody Canyon Sierra Nevada, 1949

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Near Bloody Canyon Sierra Nevada, 1949

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Boundary Peak, California - Nevada Boundary, 1955

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Boundary Peak, California - Nevada Boundary, 1955

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From Dante's View, Death Valley, California..., 1949

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From Dante's View, Death Valley, California..., 1949

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Ranch Near San Diego [Julien], 1949

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Ranch Near San Diego [Julien], 1949

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