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Ansel Adams

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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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1902 1
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1984 1
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Male 1
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Ansel Adams made his celebrated prints using the gelatin silver process.

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  • Ansel Adams, Wikipedia summary lead
    an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West
  • Ansel Adams, Wikipedia summary description field
    American photographer and environmentalist (1902-1984)
  • Gender reference
    Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.
  • In Category: Artists, Ansel Adams, Wikipedia summary
  • In Movement: American Modernism, Ansel Adams, Wikipedia, Group f/64 section
    The modernist group favored sharp focus
  • Associated With: Imogen Cunningham, Imogen Cunningham article, Group f/64 section
    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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