Ansel Adams's grandfather ... Adams is awarded the Hasselblad Medal of Honor at the Museum of Modern Art in New York by the King and Queen of Sweden. February 19: A celebration marking Adams's ...

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 ...