Remembering Ansel Adams

Emma Patti Harris 0 Comment Art, Nation Ansel Adams, famous photographers, landscape photography

On February 20, 1902, the famous western photographer, Ansel Adams, was born in San Francisco. Adams’s dramatic black and white images of Yosemite and the West are some of the most widely recognized and admired photographs of the 20th century.

“At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been a visionary in his efforts to preserve this country’s wild and scenic areas, both on film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature’s monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.” – President James E. Carter, presenting Ansel Adams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Iconic photography from The Baltimore Sun
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: The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942. (PRNewsFoto/Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Ansel Adams)

: “Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah” (1958) is a rare self-portrait by famed photographer Ansel Adams. (The Lane Collection/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/MCT)

: Ice on Ellery Lake (Ansel Adams)

: “Winterstorm, Yosemite National Park” is the title of this photograph by Ansel Adams. (AP Photo/Ansel Adams)

: Ansel Adams (Courtesy Cedric Wright Family)

: Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941. (The Lane Collection courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Copyright 2007 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust)

: Winter, Yosemite Valley, Oaks in Mist (Ansel Adams)

: Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927. (The Lane Collection courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Copyright 2007 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust)

: Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958. (The Lane Collection courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Copyright 2007 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust)

: Photographer Ansel Adams is pictured in Carmel, Calif., in this November 1980 photo. (AP Photo/file, Paul Sakuma)

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