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 57,672,842 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Ansel Adams is the 61st most popular photographer (down from 53rd in 2019), the 4,166th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,696th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Photographer.

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

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Ansel Adams ranks 61 out of 148. Before him are Inge Morath, Kishin Shinoyama, Étienne Carjat, William Klein, Abbas, and Boris Mikhailov. After him are Hiroshi Sugimoto, Imogen Cunningham, Adolfo Farsari, Erich Salomon, Wilson Bentley, and Helen Levitt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Ansel Adams ranks 162. Before him are Adolfo Zumelzú, Viliam Široký, Dutch Schultz, Sergei Khudyakov, Ferenc Hirzer, and Erwin Rösener. After him are Ryuzo Shimizu, Son House, Zino Francescatti, Josef Silný, Fritz Machlup, and Shen Congwen. Among people deceased in 1984, Ansel Adams ranks 119. Before him are Fazıl Küçük, Maximilian Fretter-Pico, Uwe Johnson, Matías González, Helge Løvland, and Manès Sperber. After him are Ciriaco Errasti, Campanal I, Louis Lansana Beavogui, Viktor Chukarin, J. B. Priestley, and Carl Joachim Friedrich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ansel Adams ranks 4,166 out of 20,380. Before him are Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Willa Cather (1873), Charles Francis Hall (1821), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Horace Greeley (1811), and John Lloyd Stephens (1805). After him are Belle Starr (1848), Wallace Stevens (1879), James Karen (1923), James Marsden (1973), George Andrew Reisner (1867), and Kellyanne Conway (1967).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Ansel Adams ranks 16. Before him are Edward Weston (1886), Lewis Hine (1874), Carl Van Vechten (1880), Paul Strand (1890), Herb Ritts (1952), and William Klein (1928). After him are Imogen Cunningham (1883), Wilson Bentley (1865), Helen Levitt (1913), Berry Berenson (1948), Gertrude Käsebier (1852), and William Eggleston (1939).

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