Ansel Adams

Adams, Ansel Easton

American, 1902 - 1984

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American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984)

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Coast South of Saint Sebastian, Oregon

Ansel Adams · 1968 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1991.159.1

Ansel Adams, Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1968, printed 1979, gelatin silver print, Gift of Virginia B. Adams, 1986.3.12

Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California

Ansel Adams · c. 1968, printed 1979 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1986.3.12

Ansel Adams, Cypress and Fog, Pebble Beach, California, 1967, printed 1979, gelatin silver print, Gift of Virginia B. Adams, 1986.3.19

Cypress and Fog, Pebble Beach, California

Ansel Adams · 1967, printed 1979 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1986.3.19

Ansel Adams, Trees, Slide Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, c. 1965, printed 1981, gelatin silver print, Gift of Virginia B. Adams, 1986.3.67

Trees, Slide Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Ansel Adams · c. 1965, printed 1981 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1986.3.67

Ansel Adams, Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra Nevada from the Owens Valley, California, c. 1962, printed 1980, gelatin silver print, Gift of Virginia B. Adams, 1986.3.60

Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra Nevada from the Owens Valley, California

Ansel Adams · c. 1962, printed 1980 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1986.3.60

From a low vantage point, we look up at the rugged face of a tall, almost sheer rock formation with the moon above in this vertical black and white photograph. Filling most of the composition, the rock formation is slightly rounded along the top but dips down to a jagged ridge to our left. Strong light from the upper right creates deep shadows across its iron-gray surface, which is textured with long vertical streaks of white and lighter gray. An almost-full moon hovers in the otherwise clear, charcoal-gray sky above it, near the top of the image to our left of center. Formations outside our view cast deep shadows along the right edge of the photograph. A smattering of white across from us, low in the image, suggest snow on the rock there. A dark mass close to us is an ink-black silhouette rising from the lower left corner and angling off the left edge, near the upper left corner.
Ansel Adams, Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1960, printed 1980, gelatin silver print, Gift of Virginia B. Adams, 1986.3.35

Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California

Ansel Adams · 1960, printed 1980 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1986.3.35

Ansel Adams, Redwoods, Bull Creek Flat, Northern California, c. 1960, printed 1980, gelatin silver print, Gift of Virginia B. Adams, 1986.3.41

Redwoods, Bull Creek Flat, Northern California

Ansel Adams · c. 1960, printed 1980 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1986.3.41

From a low vantage point, we look up at the rugged face of a tall, almost sheer rock formation with the moon above in this vertical black and white photograph. Filling most of the composition, the rock formation is slightly rounded along the top but dips down to a jagged ridge to our left. Strong light from the upper right creates deep shadows across its iron-gray surface, which is textured with long vertical streaks of white and lighter gray. An almost-full moon hovers in the otherwise clear, charcoal-gray sky above it, near the top of the image to our left of center. Formations outside our view cast deep shadows along the right edge of the photograph. A smattering of white across from us, low in the image, suggest snow on the rock there. A dark mass close to us is an ink-black silhouette rising from the lower left corner and angling off the left edge, near the upper left corner.
Ansel Adams, Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, 1960, printed 1980, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Murray H. Bring), 2015.19.4431

Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California

Ansel Adams · 1960, printed 1980 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4431

Ansel Adams, Oak Tree, Rain, Sonoma County, California, c. 1960, printed 1980, gelatin silver print, Gift of Virginia B. Adams, 1986.3.48

Oak Tree, Rain, Sonoma County, California

Ansel Adams · c. 1960, printed 1980 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  1986.3.48

From a low vantage point, we look up at the rugged face of a tall, almost sheer rock formation with the moon above in this vertical black and white photograph. Filling most of the composition, the rock formation is slightly rounded along the top but dips down to a jagged ridge to our left. Strong light from the upper right creates deep shadows across its iron-gray surface, which is textured with long vertical streaks of white and lighter gray. An almost-full moon hovers in the otherwise clear, charcoal-gray sky above it, near the top of the image to our left of center. Formations outside our view cast deep shadows along the right edge of the photograph. A smattering of white across from us, low in the image, suggest snow on the rock there. A dark mass close to us is an ink-black silhouette rising from the lower left corner and angling off the left edge, near the upper left corner.
Ansel Adams, Half Dome and Moon, Yosemite Valley, 1960, gelatin silver print, Gift of Stephen G. Stein, 2020.29.45

Half Dome and Moon, Yosemite Valley

Ansel Adams · 1960 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2020.29.45