Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 and died on April 22, 1984. Ansel was an extremely important landscape phtotgrapher of the 20th century. He focused on national parks, and other places of untouched wilderness.
In the 1920s he worked as a custodian in Yosemite National Park. During that time he created beautiful landscape picture. Adams actually became quite attatched to the park.
By 1935 Ansel Adams was famous in the photography world. His style consisted of extremely sharp detail, in black and white. In 1936, Alfred Stieglitz made the first one-artist show by a new photographer in his gallery all about Ansel Adams.
In 1980, Ansel was awarded the Presedential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. He was aknowledged as a photographer as well as an environmentalist. His work helped save a lot of the wilderness in America.
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