Ansel Adams

Untitled, about 1960 Photography by Ansel Adams, Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights TrustAnsel Adams is one of the most acclaimed photographers of the twentieth century, revered for his astoundingly detailed, beautifully composed, black and white images of the American wilderness. He was a leading pioneer of Modernist photography, an approach that rejected the painterly pictorial style favoured at the turn of the century, instead embracing modern techniques like sharp focus, seriality and sequ...