Ansel Adams begins photography At 14 in Yosemite. After his meeting with Paul Strand, He creates with Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston the group F 64.

Inventor of the Zone-System (method of calculation of the exposure), his technical books are numerous and always references.

His landscapes magnified the broad American parks, but Ansel Adams also excelled in the art of the portrait or the dead natural.