These photographs inspire President Abraham Lincoln to deed Yosemite as park land to the state of California. Olive Bray, Ansel Adams's mother, is born in Iowa while her family is going west in a ...

The Ansel Adams photo is the National Portrait Gallery’s only portrait of a first couple taken during their time in the White House.

For over six decades, Ansel Adams turned his camera on the American wilderness, becoming one of the most recognized photographers in the world. Browse some of Adams's most beloved images in this ...

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 ...

In an account that masterfully combines text and illustration, the works of three different photographers are used to showcase and examine the unjust incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans ...