Instead, he drifted toward art and nature. Shy, hyperactive, and with a crooked nose from taking a fall during the 1906 earthquake, Adams didn't fit in with others his age. 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California, Ansel Adams grew up in a once-prosperous family that had made its bygone fortune in timber. The Boy With The Crooked Noseīorn on Feb. And below, learn how the famous photographer established his iconic style. In the gallery above, look through 55 of Ansel Adams' most stunning photographs, from the cruel beauty of Death Valley and the magnificence of the Grand Canyon to the daily life of people at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. These photos, like his nature shots, showed a clear and simple truth. Alongside his photographs of American beauty, like Yellowstone and Glacier National Park, Adams also documented life at a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept."Īnd Adams applied that mindset to his life, too. "A picture," he said, "is only a collection of brightness. He applied that mindset to his photographs, which famously showed stunning natural vistas untouched by civilization. For Ansel Adams, simplicity was everything.
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