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Biography |
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1902 |
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Ansel Easton Adams born on February 20, at 114 Maple Street, San Francisco, of Olive and Charles |
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1916 |
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Takes pictures with his very first camera on a family trip to Yosemite National Park. He would return to Yosemite every year for the rest of his life. |
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1917 |
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Works at a Photo-finishing business. |
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1922 |
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Publishes first illustrated article in Sierra Club Bulletin. |
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1927 |
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Takes the photo Monolith, The Face of Half Dome. |
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1928 |
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Marries Virginia Best in Yosemite. |
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1930 |
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Becomes completely dedicated to photography after meeting photographer Paul Strand. |
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1932 |
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Co-founder of photography group, "f/64". |
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1933 |
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Opens his own gallery in San Francisco. |
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1937 |
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His darkroom in Yosemite burns - and destroys 20 percent of his negatives. |
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1940 |
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Helps found Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. |
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1941 |
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Develops Zone System of photography - a technique of exposure and development control. |
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1946 |
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Receives Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph national parks. |
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1948 |
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Guggenheim fellowship renewed. |
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1949 |
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Becomes consultant for Polaroid Corporation. |
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1953 |
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Does Life magazine photo essay on the Mormons in Utah. |
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1958 |
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Receives third Guggenheim fellowship. |
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1965 |
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Named to President Johnson's environmental task force. |
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1975 |
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Helps found Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona. His archives are established there. |
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1980 |
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Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Carter. |
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1984 |
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Dies on April 22. |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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CCP Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon |
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2008 |
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Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich |
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2007 |
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Atlas Gallery, London |
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2007 |
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Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix |
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2006 |
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Portland Art Museum, Portland |
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2006 |
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Photo Gallery International, Tokyo |
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2005 |
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The Print Center, Philadelphia |
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2005 |
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Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza, Santiago de Compostela |
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2004 |
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Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk |
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2004 |
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AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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2004 |
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Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama |
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2003 |
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Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles |
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1972 |
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Exhibits retrospective Recollected Moments, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; show is sent by USIS to Europe and South America. |
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1963 |
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The Eloquent Light, a retrospective exhibition with prints from 1923 to 1963 shown at the de Young Museum |
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1939 |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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1937 |
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Photographs included in the first historical survey of the medium at the Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1936 |
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Solo exhibition at An American Place, New York |
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1931 |
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Has an exhibition of 60 prints at the Smithsonian Institution. |
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Literature |
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1979 |
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Yosemite and the Range of Light. |
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1978 |
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Polaroid Land Photography and Ansel Adams: 50 Years of Portraits. |
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1976 |
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Photographs of the Southwest. |
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1970 |
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The Tetons and the Yellowstone. |
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1963 |
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Releases Portfolio 4 |
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1962 |
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Death Valley and the Creek Called Furnace and These We Inherit: The Parklands of America. |
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1960 |
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This is the American Earth and releases Portfolio 3 |
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1959 |
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Yosemite Valley |
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1958 |
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The Islands of Hawaii |
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1956 |
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Basic Photo Series 5 |
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1954 |
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Death Valley, Mission San Xavier del Bac and The Pageant of History in Northern California. |
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1952 |
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Basic Photo Series 4. |
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1950 |
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Basic Photo Series 3 and My Camera in Yosemite Valley. Issues Portfolio 2. |
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1948 |
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Photo Series I: Camera and Lens and 2: The Negativeand Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, and issues Portfolio I. |
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1946 |
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Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley |
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1941 |
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Michael and Anne in Yosemite Valley |
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1938 |
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Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. |
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1935 |
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Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography. |
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1930 |
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Taos Pueblo |
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1927 |
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Publishes first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. |
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