1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1902–1984 · UNITED STATES
Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
- Born
- 1902
- Died
- 1984
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1941Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
- 1927Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
WHY THEY MATTER
Co-founder of Group f/64 and co-developer of the Zone System; three Guggenheim Fellowships; retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
THE LIFE
Adams photographed the American West, above all the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite, in black and white. With Fred Archer he devised the Zone System, a method of planning a print from exposure through development. He helped found Group f/64, which argued for sharp, unmanipulated photographs. A lifelong environmentalist, he received three Guggenheim Fellowships and worked as a consultant to Polaroid.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Korona view camera, Polaroid instant film
Also born in 1900–1929
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