Avery Marshall

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1908 and was a photographer and environmentalist. In 1927 Adams made his first visualized photograph called Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, and also got his first one-man museum show in the San Francisco DeYoung Museum the same year. Throughout the 1930s Adam wrote and published his first book "Making a Photograph" and had more shows in different places like New York. Adams constructed a "zone system" about controlling and relating exposure and development. He photographed at many national parks to show the importance of environmental issues through his photographs. Adams died in California at age 82 in the ICU on April 22, 1984.