Ansel Adams was a photographer, writer, environmental activist, and lecturer who traveled the United States pursuing the natural beauty he revered and extending the tradition of nineteenth-century American landscape art. His life was, in his words, “colored and modulated by the great earth gesture” of the Yosemite Sierra, where he spent time each year for most of his life. In his practice, Adams developed the “zone system” to control an image’s exposure and development, which allowed other photographers to produce images that matched and expressed his visualization. Committed to elevating photography as a fine art, Adams played a key role in establishing the Museum of Modern Art’s first museum department of photography in New York.
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