Ansel Adams
American Photographer · 1902–1984
34 works on LinkedCulture
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
Works

Aspens (Vertical), Northern New Mexico
Getty Museum · negative 1958; print 1980

Church - Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
Getty Museum · 1937

Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California
Getty Museum · negative before 1937; print 1980

Dawn, Autumn, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Getty Museum · negative 1948; print 1980

Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, Yosemite National Park
Getty Museum · negative 1968; print 1980

El Capitan, Yosemite
Getty Museum · negative 1938; print 1950

Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, California
Getty Museum · negative 1932; print 1980

Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
Getty Museum · negative 1937; print 1981

Jose Clemente Orozco, New York City
Getty Museum · negative 1933; print 1981

Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California
Getty Museum · negative 1923; print 1980

Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, California
Getty Museum · negative about 1939; print 1980

Monolith, Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California
Getty Museum · negative 1927; print 1980

Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California
Getty Museum · negative 1960; print 1980

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Getty Museum · negative November 1, 1941; print December 16, 1948

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Getty Museum · negative 1941; print 1980

Mt. McKinley and Wonder Lake, Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska
Getty Museum · negative 1947; print 1980

Mt. Williamson from Manzanar, California
Getty Museum · 1944

Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California
Getty Museum · negative 1944; print 1981

Negro, Morehead City, N.C.
Getty Museum · 1938–1939

Orchard, Portola Valley, California
Getty Museum · negative about 1940; print 1980

Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, California
Getty Museum · negative about 1932; print 1980

Ruins, North Carolina
Getty Museum · 1938–1939

Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, California
Getty Museum · negative 1948; print 1981

Sugar Pine
Getty Museum · about 1925

Sugar Pine Cones
Getty Museum · negative 1925–1930; print 1931–1932

Tenaya Creek, Dogwood, Rain, Yosemite Valley, California
Getty Museum · negative about 1948; print 1981

Tenaya Lake, Mount Conness, Yosemite National Park, California
Getty Museum · negative about 1946; print 1981

The Golden Gate Before the Bridge, San Francisco, California
Getty Museum · negative 1932; print 1980

The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Getty Museum · negative 1942; print 1980

Trailside, Near Juneau, Alaska
Getty Museum · negative 1947; print 1980
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[Trees, Winter, Yosemite National Park]
Getty Museum · 1936

Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California
Getty Museum · negative 1944; print 1980
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[Winter, Yosemite National Park]
Getty Museum · 1938

Yosemite Valley, Winter
Getty Museum · 1943