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Biografie Ansel Adams
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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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| Ausgewählte Ausstellungen |
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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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| Literatur |
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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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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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1927
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Publishes first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras.
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