For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.Īdams was a key advisor in the founding and establishment of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.Īdams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. 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.
Ansel Easton Adams (Febru– 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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