Source
Ansel Adams
Citation
Ansel Adams. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-07 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Used here strictly to record day-month tokens (February 20 / April 22), the Monterey, California place-of-death token, and the specific Family of Man placement (10×12-foot floor-to-ceiling print of Mount Williamson, Section 25 “Relationships”) that the Tier-1 ICP page (src-icp-adams-archive) does not state.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim quotations from the article (fetched 2026-05-07; opening sentence, infobox, and Family-of-Man paragraph):
- Opening sentence: “Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.”
- Birth: February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Death: April 22, 1984 in Monterey, California, U.S.
- Nationality: American.
- Family of Man: “In 1955, Edward Steichen selected Adams’s Mount Williamson for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man, which was seen by nine million visitors.”
- Family of Man print scale: “At 10 by 12 feet (3.0 by 3.7 m), his was the largest print in the exhibition, presented floor-to-ceiling in a prominent position as the backdrop to the section ‘Relationships.’”
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is treated as a pointer source — the February 20, 1902 birth, April 22, 1984 death, Monterey deathplace, and the Mount Williamson identification with Section 25 placement should be promoted to Tier 1/2 against the April 1984 NYT obituary, the Center for Creative Photography (Arizona) Adams archive, or a peer-reviewed Adams monograph (e.g., Mary Street Alinder’s biography) before being treated as authoritative for downstream training data. - The 1902 / 1984 year-only resolution is independently anchored at Tier 1 by the ICP archive page (src-icp-adams-archive); the year-tokens are not in dispute. The day-month tokens carry pointer status.
- The “10×12 feet, backdrop to Relationships” placement claim is consistent with the MoMA Master Checklist’s recording of
photo-0258at 140 × 168 cm (Section 25 Relationships) — but the checklist’s metric dimensions (140 × 168 cm ≈ 4’7” × 5’6”) do not match Wikipedia’s “10 by 12 feet” figure. The checklist may be recording one of the smaller exhibition prints; Wikipedia may be referring to an enlarged installation print made specifically for the wall backdrop. This dimensional discrepancy is flagged for follow-up — not resolved in this round.