Ansel Easton Adams

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.