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Ansel Adams is widely recognized as the king of black&white.

Mainly famous for his black and white pictures of landscapes of American national parks (including Yosemite National Park).

He was also a writer, author of numerous books on photography, including the famous trilogy of technical manuals (The Camera, The Negative and The Print) .

Just fourteen, Adams knows the Yosemite National Park during an outing with his family. During that trip, he was given of his first camera, a Kodak Brownie, which triggered the first pictures. He remain tied to photography and nature throughout life. Passion for nature will become the main theme of his photos.

In 1927, Adams participates in the annual trip of the Sierra Club, known as high trip. In that year he published his first portfolio: Parmelian Prints of the High Sierra financed by Albert Bender, with which earned $ 4000.
In 1932 he founded the Group f/64 in order to gather some photographers belonging to straight photography: John Paul Edwards, Imogen Cunningham, Preston Holder, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston.
Aged 26, he married Virginia Best daughter of the owner of Best’s Studio, which will be inherited by his daughter in 1935 when his father died. The study is now known as the Ansel Adams Gallery.
He was a self-taught photographer.
His most famous photos are:

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, 1927.
Rose and Driftwood, 1932.
Clearing Winter Storm, 1940.
Moon Rise Over Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941.
Ice on Ellery Lake, Sierra Nevada, 1941.
Georgia O’Keeffe and Orville Cox at Canyon de Chelly
Aspens, New Mexico, 1958.

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