Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Period: Feb 20, 1902 to Apr 22, 1984

Birth

Oct 3, 1902

Ansel Easton Adams is born in San Francisco, CA on February 20, 1902.

1949

Oct 3, 1914

Becomes a consultant for the Polaroid Corporation.

1916

Oct 3, 1916

He receives his first camera, the Kodak Brownie Box camera.

1925

Oct 3, 1925

Ansel decides to become a pianist.

1927

Oct 3, 1927

First acknowledged photograph, Monolith, The Face of Halfdome

1928

Oct 3, 1928

He marries Virginia Best.

1931

Oct 3, 1931

Has an exhibition of 60 photographs at the Smithsonian Institution

1933

Oct 3, 1933

Opens his own gallery in San Francisco.

1937

Oct 3, 1937

His darkroom at Yosemite burns, destroying 20 percent of his negatives.

1941

Oct 3, 1941

Develops the Zone System for developing film.

1963

Oct 3, 1963

Ansel receives the John Muir Award.

1965

Oct 3, 1965

Appointed to President Johnson's environmental task force.

1980

Oct 3, 1980

Ansel receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1984

Oct 3, 1984

Ansel Adams dies at the age of 82.

1985

Oct 3, 1985

Mount Ansel Adams is dedicated, at Lyell Fork in Yosemite, in his memory.