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Ansel Adams

13 April 2024

  • A Black boy holding a US flag sits on the lap of an Abraham Lincoln statue.

    The photographer who captured Black San Francisco in the 1960s: ‘We wouldn’t have seen it without him’

    Chronicler of San Francisco’s now-vanished Fillmore district who studied under Ansel Adams turned his lens on his people

8 April 2023

  • black and white photo of a gleaming river winding in front of a snow-topped mountain

    Powerful Ansel Adams show centers his love for nature – and the peril it’s in

    San Francisco showcase brings together the photographer’s works alongside contemporary artists who build on it

17 February 2022

  • Ansel Adams, 'Ascent of the Lost Arrow, Yosemite Valley'

    Ansel Adams: rare photographs in stunning hi-definition

    Rare photos taken by Ansel Adams from the collection of David H Arrington, a passionate collector of Adams’ photographs from the beginning, will be offered for sale from 17 February at midday in Sotheby’s New York

25 August 2021

  • From left, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Ansel Adams in the V&A garden.

    My best shot
    Ansel Adams, Brassaï and Bill Brandt sitting on a bench: Paul Joyce’s best photograph

    ‘Ansel asked me if I was using his “zone system”. When I said I had my own method, he said I was probably using his unconsciously’

1 February 2018

  • Marion Post Wolcott. Bennie's grocery store. Sylvania, Georgia, 1939

    Visions of America by the greats – in pictures

    Yosemite’s startling beauty, a sunbather in Santa Monica and Georgia O’Keeffe by the lake … a sale of vintage, modern and contemporary photography by Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange and others casts an almost nostalgic eye on America

29 September 2016

  • Dancing at a Joint in the Bayview District, San Francisco, CA 1957

    The 1940s school that turned photography into art – in pictures

    Mentored by the likes of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Edward Weston, photography students at the California School of Fine Arts explored everything from abstraction to documentary

25 May 2016

  • Half Dome, a granite dome at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley, in a circa 1861 black and white image taken by US photographer Carleton Watkins

    How Carleton Watkins’ photographs shaped Yosemite Valley’s future

    Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 law to preserve California’s Yosemite Valley may have helped create the National Park Service but it was Carleton Watkins’ striking images that inspired the president

26 March 2016

  • Grant Mudford

    From Ansel Adams to Stephen Shore: famous photographers shoot their favourite food

    After 40 years, a cookbook by some of America’s best-loved photographers is being published for the first time

30 June 2015

  • John Waters with his art at Sprüth Magers in London’s Mayfair.

    John Waters: 'I want to be despised'

    John Waters has turned his hand to art. The ‘Pope of Trash’ takes us on a tour of his work – and explains why he performed plastic surgery on Lassie

5 December 2014

  • Liza Lou Xanthic Azure Divide 2012-2014

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Mr Turner, the Parthenon marbles and Miley Cyrus – the week in art

    Turner’s record-breaking auction sale, the headless statue allowed to leave Britain for the first time, and rock karaoke at Art Basel. Plus the death of Clip Art and the pictures that changed photography

4 December 2014

  • Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, by Steve McCurry.

    The pictures that changed photography
    Audrey Hepburn and Afghan Girl: the pictures that changed photography – part four

    A surrealist advert of Hepburn before she shot to fame, Steve McCurry’s famous green-eyed girl, and Ol’ Blue Eyes on stage at the Royal Albert Hall. Today’s trailblazing pictures range from the 1950s to the 90s

3 December 2014

  • Soldiers of the Sky, 1940 by Nickolas Muray

    Nudes on sand and Ansel Adams: the pictures that changed photography – part three

    Today’s selection of groundbreaking images comes from the interwar period, with glamorous propaganda shots, farmers in the Great Depression and moonrise in New Mexico as seen by the king of landscapes

19 November 2014

  • Annie Oakley's heart target, private collection, Los Angeles, California, 2010

    Annie Leibovitz's favourite things, from Elvis's TV to Lincoln's top hat – in pictures

    For two years, Annie Leibovitz wandered through America and Europe with one aim: to photograph the things that moved her most. Here’s her top five, including a bullet-shattered TV at Graceland and a pigeon skeleton studied by Darwin

6 October 2014

  • William Mortensen's Off for the Sabbot (1927).

    William Mortensen: photographic master at the monster’s ball

    Ansel Adams called him ‘the antichrist’ and wanted him written out of history. But William Mortensen’s grotesque photographs of death, nudity and torture and are now having their day. Chris Campion pays tribute to a master of the macabre

16 November 2012

  • Caryatid (1913) by Amedeo Modigliani

    Art Weekly newsletter
    The most radical year in art history, and a new Gangnam Style – the week in art

    Jonthan Jones: Was 1913 the most avant garde year ever? Plus Anish Kapoor and pals do Gangnam Style, and Gerry Adams hangs in the National Portrait Gallery – all in today's weekly art dispatch

9 November 2012

  • Ansel Adams: The Tetons and the Snake River

    Ansel Adams: Photography from the Mountains to the Sea exhibition opens in London

  • Ansel Adams: Yosemite National Park

    Great landscapes from mountains to sea - share your photos

24 October 2011

  • V&A's Photographs Gallery showcases world's oldest collection

    Classic images from Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson go on display at the medium's spiritual home

28 July 2010

  • Rick Norsigian and ansel adams photo

    Ansel Adams factor takes $45 jumble sale find to $200m

    Old negatives bought by California painter are said to be work of famed photographer – though Adams trust denies it

5 April 2008

  • King of the wild frontier

    Photography: Ansel Adams captures the grandeur and the detail of the US wilderness in his self-selected legacy

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