Roy Takeno reading paper. Ansel Adams, ca. 1943.
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Ansel Adams Chronology
| February 20, 1902 | Born in San Francisco, California. |
| 1916 | First trip to Yosemite. First camera - Kodak No. 1 Box Camera. |
| 1927 | Published his first photographic portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. |
| January 2, 1928 | Married Virginia Best. |
| 1931 | Pictorial Photographs of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a one-person exhibition, opened at the Smithsonian Institution. |
| August 1, 1933 | Son Michael born in Yosemite. |
| 1934 | Elected to the Sierra Club Board of Directors. |
| March 8, 1935 | Daughter Anne born in San Francisco. |
| 1936 | Exhibited photographs at Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place Gallery. |
| 1937 | Fire in Yosemite studio destroyed many of Adams's negatives. |
| 1940 | Adams selected as vice chairman of the new photography department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Organized A Pageant of Photography at the San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition. |
| 1941 |
Hired by the Interior Department to photograph national parks and monuments. Developed the Zone System of exposure. Photographed Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. |
| 1943 | Photographed at Manzanar War Relocation Center. |
| 1944 | Exhibited his photographs at the Manzanar Relocation Center.
Published Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. Exhibited Manzanar photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
| 1946 | Awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. |
| 1960 | This Is the American Earth published with text by Nancy Newhall. |
| 1963 | Retrospective exhibition, The Eloquent Light, at the M.
H. de Young Museum in San Francisco (the largest exhibit of a single photographer
ever held). Began three-year project to photograph the University of California system. Published Portfolio IV, What Majestic Word. |
| 1971 | Resigned from Sierra Club board. |
| 1979 | Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to produce the official portrait of President Jimmy Carter. |
| 1980 | Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. |
| April 22, 1984 | Died in Carmel, California. |
