Perhaps no other artist in American history has had more impact on conservation and environmentalism than master photographer ...

a magazine that showcases photographs of nature. Adams co-founds Aperture, a journal of creative photography, with the Newhalls, Minor White, and others. Virginia and Ansel Adams start a company ...

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 ...

In addition to Adams and Archer, several widely known environmental and landscape photographers have made good use of the Zone System in their portrayal of nature. Dubbed ‘the next Ansel Adams ...

Ansel’s grandson Matthew Adams grew up in Fresno. He says his grandfather always turned the spotlight onto nature’s beauty and the efforts to protect it. “I think he would really want people ...