1. -Born on Feb. 2 1902 in San Francisco
-Ansel Adams wasn’t really influenced by others. His
parents gave him a camera.
-His parents gave him a Kodak Box Brownie Camera and
he was inspired by the fact that his parents thought he
had potential
-Ansel Adams received a number of awards during his
lifetime and posthumously and there has been a few
awards named for him.
• Adams received a Doctor of Arts from both Harvard
and Yale universities.
• He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 1966. He was awarded the
Conservation Service Award by the Department of
Interior in 1968,
• A Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980, the Sierra
Club John Muir Award in 1963,
• And was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First
Lady Maria Shriver in 2007

2. • The Minarets Wilderness in the Inyo National Forest
and a 11,760-foot (3,580 m) peak therein were
renamed the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Mount
Ansel Adams respectively in 1985.
• The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for
Conservation Photography was established in 1971,
• And the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation was
established in 1980 by The Wilderness Society.
-Typically his photos were of landscape and still objects.
-Ansel Adams believed that the environment is
something worth fighting for.
-Yosemite National Park
-From the moment Ansel Adams discovered the beauty
of the wilderness as a young boy, he dedicated his life to
exploring, photographing, and preserving Yosemite
Valley, the High Sierra and the vanishing beauty of the
American western frontier.
-One of Ansel’s photos made the government think twice
about destroying the wild life.

3. -He didn’t really say much about himself or his work, only
on what a photographer truly is. (Ex. A great photograph
is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest
sense, about what is being photographed.)
-Most people thought he was honest because he always
wanted to show what the world really was.