gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and date ‘1974’ in ink, on the reverse, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art ...

Adams co-founds Aperture, a journal of creative photography, with the Newhalls, Minor White, and others. Virginia and Ansel Adams start a company called Five Associates with three friends.

Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. His burro, Mistletoe, carried almost a hundred pounds of gear and food; he himself carried a thirty ...

In 1980, the celebrated photographer Ansel Adams received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The accompanying citation read: "At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the ...

Ansel Adams wrote of an "inevitable conflict" between the accuracy of color film and people's subjective reaction to colors. Excerpted from the book Ansel Adams in ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...