Ansel Adams summary

Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Lange studied photography at Columbia University in New York City under Clarence H. White, a member of the

Ansel Adams (1902–84) was the most important landscape photographer of the 20th century and perhaps America’s most beloved. He was also a Britannica contributor, authoring the following excerpt from his entry “Photographic Art” for Britannica’s four-volume set 10 Eventful Years: A Record of Events