Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams 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 a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- San Francisco
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Hasselblad Award🏆 California Hall of Fame🏆 Sierra Club John Muir Award
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety."
"No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being."
"I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, an…"
"The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
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Timeline
1902
Born
Birth1984
Died
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