![]() In 1932, Adams, Edward and Brett Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, and a handful of other Bay Area photographers came together as Group f/64. ![]() Originally working in the Pictorialist style, widely popular in the 1910s and 1920s, Adams encountered Paul Strand’s photography in 1930, and rejected his earlier painterly, soft focus style for a new “pure” and sharp focus approach. ![]() His love for the medium and the place grew in tandem, and after his initial 1916 visit, Adams visited Yosemite annually. ![]() Many of his best-known images were made in the American West, including a large group of works made in Yosemite Valley.Īdams first learned about photography and the Sierra Nevada Mountains as a child, on family vacation. Viewers often associate his lifelong environmentalism and advocacy for America’s wilderness places with his dramatic, panoramic photographs that celebrate the redemptive potential of the natural world. Adams’s career spans seven decades and a wide range of subject matter, including portraits, still lifes, architecture, and the landscapes for which he is most famous. His was one of five inaugural archives, and it remains a cornerstone of the Center’s fine art and archival collections. Famed American photographer Ansel Adams co-founded the Center for Creative Photography in 1975. ![]()
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