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Ansel Adams
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Ansel Adams Ansel Adams: Mount Williamson—Clearing Storm Ansel Adams: Half Dome, Apple Orchard, Yosemite
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Ansel Adams: Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park Entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center Ansel Adams: Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico Ansel Adams and Susan Ford Adams, Ansel: Canyon de Chelly Manzanar War Relocation Center
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams American photographer Ansel Adams, c. 1950.

Ansel Adams

American photographer
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John Szarkowski
Acclaimed photographer and curator who served as the visionary director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
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Ansel Adams (born February 20, 1902, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died April 22, 1984, Carmel, California) was an American artist and one of the 20th century’s most important landscape photographers. He is also among the best-known and most beloved photographers in U.S. history; the popularity of his work has only increased since his death. Adams’s most important work was devoted to what was or appeared to be the country’s remaining fragments of untouched wilderness, especially in...

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