[Detail, Juniper Wood, Sierra Nevada, California]

Creator

American Photographer · 1902–1984

Ansel Adams was first trained in music, but in 1930 he gave up a career as a concert pianist to pursue photography. Although he began his career as a Pictorialist, Adams soon became an advocate of the sharp-focus, unmanipulated image. Along with Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and others, he was one of the cofounders of Group f/64. The name derived from the smallest aperture of the camera lens, w