Ansel Adams turned his camera on the American wilderness, becoming one of the most recognized photographers in the world. Browse some of Adams's most beloved images in this photo gallery.

Ansel Adams's grandfather ... Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler to shoot advertising photos with Kodak film. Unfortunately, many of the color prints have faded due to the instability of the dyes ...

“Some of the photos are part of what are Jack Delano’s photos of some of that story, then the other part are the Ansel Adams ...

This story appears in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel Adams went armed with a camera—a Kodak No. 1 Brownie ...

Signed in pencil on mount recto; titled and dated in ink on photographer's Carmel credit stamp with 'The Ansel Adams Gallery' stamp verso ...