In 1932, along with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, he co-founded the short-lived photography group f/64, and the following year, opened his gallery in San Francisco. He published his first portfolio in 1927, and in 1930, turned his focus entirely to photography. Initially training as a concert pianist, in the 1920s, Adams continued to photograph Yosemite while working as a custodian at the Sierra Club’s lodge. He took his first photographs in 1916, on a family trip to Yosemite National Park-a site to which he would return every year for the rest of his life. He also played a pivotal role in elevating photography to fine art, co-founding the group f/64, and helping to establish the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Īdams was born in 1902 in San Francisco, California. An outspoken environmentalist, Adams served as the director of the Sierra Club for nearly forty years and is particularly well known for his iconic images of Yosemite as well as other National Parks like Grand Teton, Canyon de Chelly, and the Sierra Nevadas. His striking black and white images-as impressive for their technical mastery as for their breathtaking vistas-reveal a reverence for both the untouched wilderness and the power of the photographic medium. Regarded as the preeminent landscape photographer of the 20th century, Ansel Adams captured the majesty and grandeur of the American West like no other.
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