Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.

20 February 1902

Born on the same birth day (20 February): Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen • James Wilby • Jimmy Greaves • Joel Hodgson • Jon Brant • Phil Neal • Rena Vlahopoulou • Sengoku Hidehisa • Shigeo Nagashima • Tochinishiki Kiyotaka

Born in the same month (February 1902): Arne Jacobsen • Arthur Nock • Charles Lindbergh • Demchugdongrub • Harold Lasswell • Jean Bruller • John Steinbeck • John Tonkin • Kay Boyle • Walter Houser Brattain