This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...

The members, including Adams, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham, are committed to defining photography as a pure art form rather than a derivative of other art forms. Ansel and Virginia's son ...

Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness ... century landscape photographer William Henry Jackson's typical photo gear for a summer's travels in his 1938 book, Photography and ...

Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company Ansel Adams never made up his mind about color photography. Long before his death in 1984 at age 82, he foresaw that this "beguiling medium ...

On view through March 29, "Ansel Adams, A Legacy: Masterworks from The Friends of Photography Collection" features a broad cross section of images from the artist's prolific 40-year career.