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PHOTOGRAPHER

Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ansel Adams has received more than 47,824,999 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Ansel Adams is the 53rd most popular photographer (down from 13th in 2019), the 3,706th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,401st in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Photographer.

Ansel Adams is most famous for his black and white photographs of the American West.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Ansel Adams ranks 53 out of 105Before him are Marc Riboud, Gisèle Freund, Cecil Beaton, Karl Blossfeldt, Inge Morath, and Sophie Calle. After him are Lennart Nilsson, Cornell Capa, Gustav Klutsis, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Étienne Carjat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Ansel Adams ranks 140Before him are Regina Jonas, Fuad Chehab, Józef Maria Bocheński, Dutch Schultz, Josef Krips, and Luis Cernuda. After him are Zino Francescatti, Johan Borgen, Virginio Rosetta, Giovanni Colombo, Miriam Hopkins, and Thomas E. Dewey. Among people deceased in 1984, Ansel Adams ranks 102Before him are Maximilian Fretter-Pico, Richard E. Bellman, Ernesto Mascheroni, Trygve Bratteli, Big Mama Thornton, and Adam Malik. After him are Walter Pidgeon, Manuel Fleitas Solich, Paul Ben-Haim, Uwe Johnson, Toni Turek, and William Powell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ansel Adams ranks 3,706 out of 18,182Before him are Ann Miller (1923), John Milius (1944), Jennifer Morrison (1979), Vince Neil (1961), James A. Michener (1907), and Grover Washington Jr. (1943). After him are Paula Abdul (1962), Lois Smith (1930), James M. Gavin (1907), Russ Tamblyn (1934), Eric Dolphy (1928), and Scott Carpenter (1925).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Ansel Adams ranks 13Before him are Irving Penn (1917), Lewis Hine (1874), Edward Weston (1886), Berenice Abbott (1898), Paul Strand (1890), and Carl Van Vechten (1880). After him are Nan Goldin (1953), Berry Berenson (1948), William Klein (1928), Herb Ritts (1952), Imogen Cunningham (1883), and Wilson Bentley (1865).