![]() ![]() ![]() For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.Īdams was a key advisor in the founding and establishment of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. ![]() He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. 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.Īdams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. 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. Ansel Easton Adams (Febru– April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. ![]()
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