Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating pure photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of tonal range.
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Ansel Adams made his celebrated prints using the gelatin silver process.
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In 1916, following a trip to Yosemite National Park, he also began experimenting with photography.
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an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West
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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.
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The modernist group favored sharp focus
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He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
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she joined with like-minded photographers, including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Willard Van Dyke. Together these individuals formed Group f/64 to promote a more relevant and meaningful style of photography.
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