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Date of Birth
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20-February-1902
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Place of Birth
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Western Addition
(San Francisco, California, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco District 5, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Ansel E Adams
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Profession
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Photographer, Artist, Conservationist
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Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books.
With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs. Adams primarily used large-format cameras because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images.
Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston.
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