1902 - Ansel Easton Adams born on February
20, at 114 Maple Street, San Francisco, the only child of Olive and Charles
1915 - Despises the regimentation
of a regular education, and is taken out of school. For that year, his father
buys him a season pass to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, which he visits nearly
every day. Private tutors provide further instruction.
1916: Family Trip to Yosemite, California.
1925: Decides to become a pianist. Buys a grand piano.
1927: First acknowledged photograph.
1940 - Teaches first Yosemite workshop, the U. S. Camera Photographic
Forum, in Yosemite with Edward Weston.
1953 he collaborated with Dorothea Lange on a Life commission
for a photo essay on the Mormons in Utah
In 1962 Adams moved to Carmel, California, where in 1967 he
was instrumental in the foundation of the Friends of Photography
1984 - Dies April 22 of heart failure aggravated by cancer
