Great Black and White Photographs Part two

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 and died on April 22, 1984. He was born in San Francisco, California. He got his education from Yale and Hardvard University. His jobs were being a photographer and a Conservationalist. Some of Adams most famous books are The Print and The Camera. Some awards that Adams has one are the Hasselblad Award, and Presidential Medal of Freedom. He mostly took photos of landscape black and white. A lot of his pictures have been widely produced on calendars, posters, and books.Adams first portfolio is called Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. He used the Korona view camera to take his most famous image in that portfolio called Monolith. Even though Adams is most known for his black and white photographs he also worked with color as well. He invented the zone system which basically allowed photographers to have better control over finished products/photographs. He also created the idea of visualization which measured the amount of light values on the photograph. Adams dies in ICU on April 22, 1984 in the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, CA. He was 82 years old and he died from cardiovascular disease. He had a wife, two children which were named Micheal and Anne and also he had five grandchildren.