He was a committed environmentalist and nothing short of an icon for the 20th century conservation movement. Adams's professional life was dedicated to capturing through his lens the forgotten and unspoiled wilderness of America's national parks and other protected conservation areas in the West. He might also be the most widely known and respected of all American photographers, whose legend continues through books and television documentaries, and through the prevalent reproduction of his work on calendars, posters, postcards and other ephemera. Ansel Adams was the most important American landscape photographer of the 20 th century.
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