Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Adams also authored numerous books about photography, including his trilogy of technical instruction manuals ("The Camera", "The Negative" and "The Print"); co-founded Group f/64 along with other masters like Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham; and created, with Fred Archer, the "zone system". Wikipedia
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Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1974, the Andrew Smith Gallery is the world's leading photography gallery selling nineteenth and twentieth century classical and contemporary original photographs. www.andrewsmithgallery.com
1902 - Ansel Easton Adams born on February 20, at 114 Maple Street, San Francisco, the only child of Olive and Charles 1915 - Despises the regimentation of a regular education, and is taken out of school. www.zpub.com/sf/history/adams.html
An exhibition of 20th century photographs from the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration. www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/portfolio...