Ansel Adams

Date of birth: February 20, 1902
Place of birth: San Francisco, California
Date and age of death: April 22, 1984-82 years old
Place of death: Carmel, California
Cause of death: Heart Disease
Primary type of artwork: Black and white photography
Materials used: large format cameras to produce maximum depth of field
Period of art: F/64- straight photography
Definition of period of art: signifies qualities and clearness an definition of the photographic image

Personal information: started the F/64 group.Got a mountain named after him in Yosemite National Park. Was a pianist , but thought he would make better money being a photographer rather than a pianist. Once got worked to the point of exhaustion working on a one-man show in New York. It took him months to recover. President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.