Ansel Adams, The Golden Gate Before the Bridge ... Photographers have been instrumental in preserving the American wilderness. Landscape photographer Carleton Watkins’s efforts first secured Yosemite ...

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

Fremont is inexperienced with the process and obtains poor results. Ansel Adams's grandfather, William James Adams, establishes a profitable grocery business in Sacramento and San Francisco ...

A local photographer who is passionate about capturing moments in one-hundredth of a second embraced many styles of his trade ...

Before Ansel Adams became an iconic nature photographer ... For a photographer like Adams who would soon define the landscape genre, it seemed that his 44 years working on the Bracebridge were ...