Ansel Easton Adams inggih punika salah satunggaling astronom ingkang miyoswonten ing tanggal 20 Pebruari 1902 lan séda ing tanggal 22 April 1984. Kajawi dados astronom, piyambakipun ugi dados fotografer Amérika lan tiyang ingkang gadhah asiling foto bab lingkungan kanthi latar cemeng - pethak, kanthi wujud poto landscape saking Amérika Barat, mliginipun saking Taman Nasional Yosemite.
Sesarengan kaliyan Fred R. Acher, Adams ngrambakakaken zona sistem minangka satunggaling cara kanggé nemtokaken eksposur ingkang pas lan ngepasaken kontras cithakan pungkasan. Cetha punapa botenipun asiling photo ingkang dipunasilaken lan jero botenipun photo saged dipuntandhai dhateng sinten ing mulang sistem mau. Adams asring ngginakaken format ukuran ageng wonten ing kodhaknipun sanajan ta ukuranipun ageng, amargi dipunbetahaken resolusi gambar ingkang saé kanggé mesthekaken landhep punapa botenipun asiling gambaripun.
Adams ndhirikaken grup f/64 searengan kaliyan fotografer sanèsipun inggih punika Willard Van Dyke lan Edward Weston. Fotonipun Adams ingkang sampun dipunasilaken lajeng kathah dipunwedalaken malih lan dipuncithak wonten ing kalender, poster, lan wonten ing buku-buku, lan fotonipun sampun ngrembaka ing papan ingkang wiyar.

Biografi
Adams inggih miyos wonten ing Western Addition, San Francisco, California, ndhèrèk tiyang sepuhipun Charles Hitchcock Adams lan Olive Bray Adams. Piyambakipun boten gadhah sedherek lan dipunparingi nala sasampunipun likipun, Ansel Easton. Kulawarganipun ibunipun asalipun saking Baltimore lan simbah kakungipun saking pihak ibunipun gadhah kathah barang- barang ingkang nandhakaken piyambakipun bisnismen ingkang suksès, nanging piyambakipun boten naté nyia- nyiakaken kasugihanipun ing babagan tambang lan usaha real estate ing Nevada. Kulawarga Adams asalipun saking New England, sasampunipun migrasi dhateng Irlandia Utara ing purwakaning abad kaping 18.

Padamelanipun
Ing taun 1927, Adams ngasilaken portofolionipun Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, wonten ing stlye ingkang engga, ingkang dadosaken satunggaling gambar ingkang misuwur kanthi nama Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, ingkang dipunpendhet saking kodhak korona ngginakakenglass plates lan kanthi filter abrit ingkang peteng. Wonten ing kunjungan punika, piyambakipun namung gadhah satunggal piringan kering lan piyambakipun namung ngangen - angen wontenipun efek saking langit ingkang dados cemeng saderengipun mejet tombol ingkang dipun-ginakaken kanggé njepret gambar.

Karyanipun
 The High Sierra: Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, 1927. (Jean Chambers Moore, Publisher)
 Taos Pueblo, 1930.
 Sierra Nevada the John Muir Trail, 1938. (reprinted 2006 as ISBN 0-8212-5717-X).
 Born Free and Equal, 1944. ISBN 1-893343-05-7.
 Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, 1948. (text from writings of John Muir)
 My Camera In The National Parks, 1950.
 The Land of Little Rain, 1950. (text by Mary Austin)
 The Islands of Hawaii, 1958.
 This is the American Earth, 1960, (with Nancy Newhall) Sierra Club Books. (reprinted by Bulfinch, ISBN 0-8212-2182-5)
 These We Inherit: The Parklands of America, 1962. (with Nancy Newhall)
 The Eloquent Light, 1963. (unfinished biography of Adams by Nancy Newhall)
 Yosemite Valley", 1967. (45 plates in B&W edited by Nancy Newhall, published by 5 Associates, Redwood City, California.)
 The Tetons and the Yellowstone, 1970.
 Ansel Adams, 1972. ISBN 0-8212-0721-0.
 Images, 1923-1974, 1974. ISBN 0-8212-0600-1.
 Polaroid Land Photography, 1978. ISBN 0-8212-0729-6.
 Yosemite and the Range of Light, 1979. ISBN 0-8212-0750-4.
 The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, 1981. ISBN 0-8212-0723-7.
 Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, 1984. ISBN 0-8212-1551-5.
 Ansel Adams: Classic Images, 1986. ISBN 0-8212-1629-5.
 Letters and Images 1916-1984, 1988. ISBN 0-8212-1691-0.
 Our Current National Parks, 1992.
 Ansel Adams: In Color, 1993. ISBN 0-8212-1980-4.
 Photographs of the Southwest, 1994. ISBN 0-8212-0699-0.
 Yosemite and the High Sierra, 1994. ISBN 0-8212-2134-5.
 The National Park Photographs, 1995. ISBN 0-89660-056-4.
 Yosemite, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2196-5.
 California, 1997. ISBN 0-8212-2369-0.
 America's Wilderness, 1997. ISBN 1-56138-744-4.
 Ansel Adams at 100, 2001. ISBN 0-8212-2515-4.
 Born Free and Equal, 2002. ISBN 1-893343-05-7.
 Ansel Adams: The National Park Service Photographs, 2005. ISBN 978-0-89660-056-0.
 Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places, 2005. ISBN 1-59764-069-7.
 Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, 2007. ISBN 978-0-316-11772-2.

 Buku Teknik 
 Making a Photograph, 1935.
 Camera and Lens: The Creative Approach, 1948. ISBN 0-8212-0716-4
 The Negative: Exposure and Development, 1949. ISBN 0-8212-0717-2
 The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging, 1950. ISBN 0-8212-0718-0
 Natural Light Photography, 1952. ISBN 0-8212-0719-9
 Artificial Light Photography, 1956. ISBN 0-8212-0720-2
 Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, 1983. ISBN 0-8212-1750-X
 The Camera, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2184-1
 The Negative, 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2186-8
 The Print'', 1995. ISBN 0-8212-2187-6

Cathetan suku

Ahli fotografi Amérikah Sarékat
Lair 1902