Source
Ansel Adams — International Center of Photography
Citation
International Center of Photography. “Ansel Adams.” Constituent page in the ICP archive-browse index. Accessed 2026-05-07. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/ansel-adams
Relevance
Tier-1 institutional archive page for Ansel Adams at ICP. Reference for his biographical anchor (born San Francisco 1902; died 1984; Group f/64 founding 1932; MoMA Department of Photography founding role 1940). Adams has one plate in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-07): photo-0258 (Section 25 Relationships, USA, 140 × 168 cm — among the largest plates in the exhibition).
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the page fetched 2026-05-07:
- “The influence of Ansel Adams on photography is immeasurable, and his long career as photographer, teacher, conservationist, and writer is legendary.”
- “His visionary belief in the redemptive beauty of wilderness was expressed in grand images that have popularized art photography among the American public.”
- “Adams was born in San Francisco, and trained as a musician; his interest in photography was catalyzed when he met Paul Strand in 1930.”
- “In 1932, with Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and others, Adams founded the group f/64, which promoted use of large-format view cameras, small lens apertures, and contact printing.”
- “Adams developed this purist approach into the zone system, a controlled method of determining exposure and development.”
- “He moved to Yosemite Valley in 1937 and lived there until 1962, teaching annual photography workshops from 1955 through 1984.”
- “Adams assisted Beaumont Newhall and David McAlpin in forming the Department of Photography (the first in the country) at the Museum of Modern Art in 1940.”
- “Adams received Guggenheim grants in 1946, 1948, and 1958.”
Artist dates on the page: 1902 – 1984 (American).
Notes
- Perspective: institutional / archival.
- The ICP page gives year-only resolution (1902 / 1984). The February 20, 1902 / April 22, 1984 day-month tokens and the Monterey, California place-of-death token carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-adams-pointer.
- The page does not name The Family of Man explicitly. The connection (Adams’s Mount Williamson used as a 10×12-foot floor-to-ceiling backdrop to Section 25 “Relationships”) comes from the MoMA Master Checklist (src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, in repo) at the plate level, and from src-wikipedia-adams-pointer.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-07.