Bowdoin College Homepage
Bowdoin College Museum of Art Logo and Wordmark

Advanced Search

Ansel Adams

 
Ansel Adams

American 20th century American photographer
(San Francisco, California, 1902 - 1984, Carmel, California)

American, 1902 - 1984. from ULAN: Adams began to photograph professionally in 1930, and in 1932 was a founding member of the f/64 group in San Francisco, California. In 1940 he created the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, along with Beaumont Newhall and David McAlpin. In 1941 Adams began to photograph landscapes. From 1942 to 1944 Adams acted as the photographic adviser to the United States Army. In 1962 Adams moved to Carmel, California where he founded the Friends of Photography in 1967. He continued to document the landscape of the American West. American photographer.

6 objects

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

1941
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1973.7
 

Mount McKinley

1947
gelatin silver print
Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
1991.47
 

Surf Detail, Timber Cove, California

ca. 1965
gelatin silver print
Gift of Bernard and Barbro Osher
2011.34.2
 

Gravestone, Mendocino, California

ca. 1965
gelatin silver print
Gift of Bernard and Barbro Osher
2011.34.1
 

Graduation Dress, Yosemite Valley, California

1948 (printed 1974)
vintage silver gelatin print on paper
Gift, Joe Baio Collection of Photography
2020.51.1