![]() He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. At 20, he became a caretaker at the Sierra Club in Yosemite Valley. He continued making photographs and using the photo diary format and, by the time Adams was 19 years old, his first formal photographs were being published. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. Ansel Adams preferred the term taking photographs to making photographs. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography.Īdams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed during exposure, negative development, and printing. 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 was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. ![]()
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