Overview
One thing that remains true throughout the entirety of Ansel Adam’s photographic portfolio is his unique vision of his native homeland, California. Each image captures the absolute and sublime beauty of nature in an eternal form, intensifying and purifying it, and making it possible for humans to keep this moment with them indeterminately. Adams was an active member of the Sierra Club and Wilderness Society. He and Nancy Newhall, a fellow photographer, collaborated to create historically significant books and exhibitions, such as This is the American Earth, and through their documentation were able to fuel the inspiration for the first serious environmental movement in the United States.
Associations
The Sierra Club
The Wilderness Society
Exhibitions
Smithsonian Institution, 1931
An American Place, New York (solo exhibition), 1936
The Eloquent Light, retrospective exhibit of photographs from 1923-1963, de Young Museum, California, 1963
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1972
Museums and Public Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
University of Arizona, John P. Schaefer Center for Creative Photography
University of California at Berkeley, Bancroft Library
The Yosemite Museum