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Ansel Adams Biographie
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1902 |
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Born: February 20th, at 114 Maple Street, San Francisco, to Olive and Charles
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1916 |
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Took 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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Worked at a Photo-finishing business.
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1922 |
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Published first illustrated article in Sierra Club Bulletin.
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1927 |
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Took the photo Monolith, The Face of Half Dome.
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1928 |
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Married Virginia Best in Yosemite.
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1930 |
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Became 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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Opened his own gallery in San Francisco.
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1937 |
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His darkroom in Yosemite burned - and destroyed 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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Developed Zone System of photography - a technique of exposure and development control.
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1946 |
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Received 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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Became 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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Received 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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| Expositions sélectionnées |
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2013
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A Legacy - Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Light Sensitive - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Sight and Feeling - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
The Polaroid Years - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Clouds - World of the Ephemeral - Leopold Museum, Vienna
Ansel Adams - A Legacy - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawai‘i Pictures, - Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Ansel Adams, - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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2012
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Ansel Adams - Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, WI
Ansel Adams: At the Water's Edge - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
The song of the clouds - De Primi Fine Art, Lugano
Ansel Adams - Rizziero Arte, Pescara
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2011
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The View from Here - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Ansel Adams: A Legacy - Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT
Ansel Adams: Masterworks - Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
Tribute to Ansel Adams - Galleria Repetto, Acqui Terme
Ansel Adams: Distance and Detail - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV
Ansel Adams: Masterworks - Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (FCMOCA), Fort Collins, CO
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2010
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Ansel Adams: Arizona and the West - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Ansel Adams: Photographs - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO
Ansel Adams: A Legacy - Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
Ansel Adams - Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Looking At Teske - Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ansel Adams: Masterworks - Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum, Cape Girardeau, MO
Ansel Adams at Work - The Fiat Lux Commission - UCR / California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Ansel Adams: Discoveries - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured The Earth's Beauty - Southern Illinois University Museum , Carbondale, IL
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2009
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Month of photography: Ansel Adams - City Gallery of Bratislava / Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava
Ansel Adams: Masterworks From the Collection of the Turtle Bay Exploration Center, Redding, CA - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Ansel Adams: A Legacy - Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Yosemite Valley vor Ansel Adams - Galerie foto-forum, Bolzano
Ansel Adams: Early Works - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Ansel Adams - Photographs - Gl Holtegaard, Holte
Ansel Adams in Yosemite - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Ansel Adams: A Life’s Work - The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
People, of and by Ansel Adams - Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Ansel Adams: Early Works - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
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2008
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CCP Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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2007
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Atlas Gallery, London, England
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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2006
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Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
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2005
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The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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2004
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Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
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2003
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Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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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, San Francisco, CA
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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, NY
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1936
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Solo exhibition at An American Place, New York, NY
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1931
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Had an exhibition of 60 prints at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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| Littérature |
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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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