Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness ... And I believe it was Jackson's series of pictures on the top of Mt. Hoffman, with wet plates, that is, having to take the darkroom ...

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 ...

Fremont is inexperienced with the process and obtains poor results. Ansel Adams's grandfather, William James Adams, establishes a profitable grocery business in Sacramento and San Francisco ...