isher Frank Dittman, San Francisco, 1916–1917. Began
career as photographer in 1927; worked as commercial
photographer 1930–1960; co-founded the Group f.64, San
Francisco 1932; co-founded the Photography Department,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1940; instructor, with
Edward Weston,U.S. Cameraphotographic forum, Yose-
mite Valley, 1940; instructor in Photography, Art Center
School, Los Angeles, 1941; photography consultant, Office
of War Information, Los Angeles, 1942–1944; instructor in
photography MoMA, New York, 1945; founder and
instructor, Department of Photography, California School
of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1946; Guggenheim Fellow-
ships 1946 (renewed 1948), 1958; founder and instructor,
Ansel Adams Annual Photography Workshops, Yosemite
Valley, 1955–1984; member of the board of directors,
1934–1971, and honorary vice-president, 1978–1984, Sierra
Club, San Francisco; founder and chairman, Friends of
Photography, Carmel, 1967; Conservation Service
Award, United States Department of the Interior, 1968;
Progress Medal, Photographic Society of America, 1969;
Chubb Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, Con-
necticut, 1970; participates in creation of the Center for
Creative Photography, University of Arizona at Tucson,
1970; United States Presidential Medal of Freedom,
1980; Hasselblad Prize, 1981; Died in Carmel, California,
23 April 1984.Individual Exhibitions
1928 Sierra Club, San Francisco, California
1931 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1932 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco,
California
1934 Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1936 An American Place, New York, New York
1938 University of California, Berkeley, California
1939 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia
1944 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1946 Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California
1950 Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, California
1951 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1952 International Museum of Photography, Rochester,
New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1956 Photokina, Cologne, Germany
1956 Limelight Gallery, New York, New York
1961 American Federation of Arts, Carmel, California
1963 TheEloquentLight,M.H.deYoungMemorialMuseum,
San Francisco, California (retrospective)
1972 Recollected Moments, San Francisco Museum of Mo-
dern Art, San Francisco, California, and traveling to
Europe and South America
Witkin Gallery, New York, New York
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Cali-
fornia
1973 Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
1974 Photographs by Ansel Adams, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, New York and traveling
1967 Center for Creative Photography, University of Ari-
zona, Tucson, Arizona, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, England
1977 Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1980 Ansel Adams: Photographs of the American West, or-
ganized by The Friends of Photography for the USICA
and circulated through 1983 in India, the Middle East,
and Africa
1981 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
1982 Ansel Adams at An American Place, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California,
and traveling
1983 Ansel Adams: Photographs, The Friends of Photogra-
phy, and traveling to Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong,
and Tokyo
1987 Ansel Adams: One with Beauty, M.H. de Young Mem-
orial Museum, San Francisco, California
1997 Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from The
Friends of Photography Collection, and traveling in Uni-
ted States and Japan
2002 Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Mod-
ern Art, San Francisco, California, and travelingGroup Exhibitions
1932 Group f/64, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San
Francisco
1937 Photography 1839–1937, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York
1944 Art in Progress, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
New York
1951 Contemporary Photography, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, Texas
1959 Photography at Mid-Century, George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York
1963 The Photographer and the American Landscape,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since
1960 , Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
and toured the United States, 1978–1980
1980 The Imaginary Photo Museum, Kunsthalle, Cologne,
Germany
1985 American Images, Barbican Art Gallery, London,
England and toured Britain
1987 Photography and Art 1946–1986, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CaliforniaSelected Works
Photographs
Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River, Yosemite
National Park, 1921
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park,
1927
Rose and Driftwood, San Francisco, 1932
Frozen Lake and Cliffs, Sierra Nevada, Sequoia National
Park, California, 1932
Burnt Stump and New Grass, Sierra Nevada, California,
1935
High Country Crags and Moon, Sunrise, Kings Canyon
National Park, California, c. 1935
North Dome, Basket Dome, Mount Hoffman, Yosemite, c.
1935
Surf Sequence, San Mateo County Coast, California, 1940
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
Winter Sunrise, The Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, Cali-
fornia, 1944
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, 1944
Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, Cali-
fornia, 1944ADAMS, ANSEL