| Ansel
Adams (1902-1984)
Biography
1902 Ansel Easton Adams born on February 20, at 114 Maple Street, San Francisco,
of Olive and Charles
1916 Takes 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 Works at a Photo-finishing business.
1922 Publishes first illustrated article in Sierra Club Bulletin.
1927 Takes the photo Monolith, The Face of Half Dome.
1928 Marries Virginia Best in Yosemite.
1930 Becomes completely dedicated to photography after meeting photographer Paul
Strand.
1932 Co-founder of photography group, "f/64".
1933 Opens his own gallery in San Francisco.
1937 His darkroom in Yosemite burns - and destroys 20 percent of his negatives.
1940 Helps found Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
1941 Develops Zone System of photography - a technique of exposure and development
control.
1946 Receives Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph national parks.
1948 Guggenheim fellowship renewed.
1949 Becomes consultant for Polaroid Corporation.
1953 Does Life magazine photo essay on the Mormons in Utah.
1958 Receives third Guggenheim fellowship.
1965 Named to President Johnson's environmental task force.
1975 Helps found Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona. His
archives are established there.
1980 Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Carter.
1984 Dies on April 22.
Exhibitions
1931 Has an exhibition of 60 prints at the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
To Artist Showroom
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