Ansel Adams in Color

Tree, Barn, Near Livemore, California, 1950
In a career of 50-plus years, Adams pursued color photography for over forty of them, and he believed it
Ansel Adams

Tree, Barn, Near Livemore, California, 1950
In a career of 50-plus years, Adams pursued color photography for over forty of them, and he believed it to be the medium of the future. In addition to using it for commercial jobs, he shot color for magazines like Life, Horizon and Fortune. He also exhibited his color work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1950.

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