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Ansel Adams

(American, 1902–1984)

Ansel Adams

Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944

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Ansel Adams

The Black Sun, Tungsten Hills, Owens Valley, California, 1939

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Biography

Timeline

1902: Born February 20 at 114 Maple Street, San Francisco, to Olive and Charles
1916: Took pictures with his very first camera on a family trip to Yosemite National Park. He would return to Yosemite every year for the rest of his life.
1917: Worked at a Photo-finishing business
1922: Published first illustrated article in Sierra Club Bulletin
1927: Took the photo Monolith, The Face of Half Dome
1928: Married Virginia Best in Yosemite
1930: Became completely dedicated to photography after meeting photographer Paul Strand
1932: Co-founder of photography group, "f/64"
1933: Opened his own gallery in San Francisco
1937: His darkroom in Yosemite burned, about 20 percent of his negatives destroyed
1940: Helped found Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art
1941: Developed Zone System of photography, a technique of exposure and development control
1946: Received Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph national parks
1948: Guggenheim fellowship renewed
1949: Became consultant for Polaroid Corporation
1953: Did Life magazine photo essay on the Mormons in Utah
1958: Received third Guggenheim fellowship
1965: Named to President Johnson's environmental task force
1975: Helped found Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona. His archives established there.
1980: Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Carter
1984: Died on April 22 in Monterey

Exhibitions

2013: A Legacy, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, USA
Light Sensitive, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, USA
Sight and Feeling, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, USA
The Polaroid Years, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA
Clouds: World of the Ephemeral, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Ansel Adams - A Legacy, University of Virginia Art Museums, The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, USA
Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawai‘i Pictures, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, USA
Ansel Adams, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
2012: Ansel Adams, Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, USA
Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
The song of the clouds, De Primi Fine Art, Lugano, Switzerland
Ansel Adams, Rizziero Arte, Pescara, Italy
2011: The View from Here, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Ansel Adams: A Legacy, Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, USA
Ansel Adams: Masterworks, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, USA
Tribute to Ansel Adams, Galleria Repetto, Acqui Terme, Italy
Ansel Adams: Distance and Detail, Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, USA
Ansel Adams: Masterworks, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (FCMOCA), Fort Collins, USA
2010: Ansel Adams: Arizona and the West, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Ansel Adams: Photographs, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, USA
Ansel Adams: A Legacy, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, USA
Ansel Adams, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, USA
Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, USA
Looking At Teske, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Ansel Adams: Masterworks, Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum, Cape Girardeau, USA
Ansel Adams at Work, The Fiat Lux Commission, UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA
Ansel Adams: Discoveries, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured The Earth's Beauty, Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale, USA
2009: Month of photography: Ansel Adams, City Gallery of Bratislava / Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Ansel Adams: Masterworks From the Collection of the Turtle Bay Exploration Center, Redding, USA - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, USA
Ansel Adams: A Legacy, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USA
Yosemite Valley vor Ansel Adams, Galerie foto-forum, Bolzano, Italy
Ansel Adams: Early Works, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
Ansel Adams - Photographs, Gl Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark
Ansel Adams in Yosemite, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA
Ansel Adams: A Life’s Work, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
People, of and by Ansel Adams, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, USA
Ansel Adams: Early Works, Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, USA
2008: CCP Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, USA
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2007: Atlas Gallery, London, England
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2006: Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
2005: The Print Center, Philadelphia, USA
Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2004: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA
AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2003: Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1972: Exhibits retrospective Recollected Moments, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; show is sent by USIS to Europe and South America
1963: The Eloquent Light, a retrospective exhibition with prints from 1923 to 1963 shown at the de Young Museum
1939: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1937: Photographs included in the first historical survey of the medium at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1936: Solo exhibition at An American Place, New York, USA
1931: Had an exhibition of 60 prints at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Literature

1979: Yosemite and the Range of Light.
1978: Polaroid Land Photography and Ansel Adams: 50 Years of Portraits.
1976: Photographs of the Southwest.
1970: The Tetons and the Yellowstone.
1963: Releases Portfolio 4
1962: Death Valley and the Creek Called Furnace and These We Inherit: The Parklands of America.
1960: This is the American Earth and releases Portfolio 3
1959: Yosemite Valley
1958: The Islands of Hawaii
1956: Basic Photo Series 5
1954: Death Valley, Mission San Xavier del Bac and The Pageant of History in Northern California.
1952: Basic Photo Series 4.
1950: Basic Photo Series 3 and My Camera in Yosemite Valley. Issues Portfolio 2.
1948: Photo Series I: Camera and Lens and 2: The Negativeand Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, and issues Portfolio I.
1946: Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley
1941: Michael and Anne in Yosemite Valley
1938: Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail.
1935: Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography.
1930: Taos Pueblo
1927: Publishes first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras.

Ansel Adams

(American, 1902–1984)

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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