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Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

Ansel Adams

American · 1902–1984 · Printmaker, Photographer

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Ansel Adams, Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine California, 1944, Mural-sized gelatin silver print, printed 1967, flush-mountedWinter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine CaliforniaPhillips · $412,500≈ £327,485≈ €364,110Sign up to see
  2. Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1959Moonrise, Hernandez, New MexicoPhillips · $381,000≈ £305,240≈ €349,509Sign up to see
  3. Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942, Gelatin silver print, printed 1973-1977The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, WyomingPhillips · $289,800≈ £213,104≈ €250,649Sign up to see

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Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. 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. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.

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Born 1902, San FranciscoDied 1984, Carmel-by-the-SeaOccupation Printmaker, PhotographerWikidata Q60809 ↗ULAN 500026108 ↗Museum works 5

Also known as Ansel E. Adams, Ansel Easton Adams, Ansel Easton Adams II

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico1941
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming1942
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Ansel Adams, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome1927
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Ansel Adams, Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park
Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park1942
National Archives at College Park ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — National Archives at College Park
Ansel Adams, Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River
Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River1921
Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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