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Ansel Adams Biography
Born: February 20, 1902
San Francisco, California
Died: April 22, 1984
Carmel, California
American photographer
Ansel Adams was a masterful photographer and a lifelong conservationist (a person who works to preserve and protect the environment) who encouraged understanding of, and respect for, the natural environment.
Although he spent a large part of his career in commercial photography, he is best known for his photographs of landscapes.
Early life
Ansel Easton Adams, the only child of Charles Hitchcock and Olive Bray Adams, was born on February 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California, near the Golden Gate Bridge.
In 1906 an aftershock from the famous earthquake of that year threw him to the floor and gave him a badly broken nose. His father, a successful businessman who owned an insurance agency and a chemical factory, sent him to private, as well as public, schools.
Adams was shy and self-conscious about his nose and had problems in