In 1980, the celebrated photographer Ansel Adams received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The accompanying citation read: "At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the ...

Ansel Adams wrote of an "inevitable conflict" between the accuracy of color film and people's subjective reaction to colors. Excerpted from the book Ansel Adams in ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...

Fremont is inexperienced with the process and obtains poor results. Ansel Adams's grandfather, William James Adams, establishes a profitable grocery business in Sacramento and San Francisco ...