These photographs inspire President Abraham Lincoln to deed Yosemite as park land to the state of California. Olive Bray, Ansel Adams's mother, is born in Iowa while her family is going west in a ...

On March 27, 2025, at 12:00 EDT, Sotheby’s will inaugurate a significant photography auction to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Photography Department in New York.

Perhaps no other artist in American history has had more impact on conservation and environmentalism than master photographer ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A woman in Missouri may have stumbled across a huge collection of Ansel Adams photographs—a photographer famous for his pictures of American southwestern landscapes.

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...

This life story describes his boyhood... Ansel Adams, Author, Ansel Adams, Photographer, John Armor, With Crown Publishers $27.5 (167p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1727-7 Hersey calls it ``the bitterest shame ...

Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company Ansel Adams never made up his mind about color photography. Long before his death in 1984 at age 82, he foresaw that this "beguiling medium ...