January 2: Adams and Virginia Best get married at Yosemite. Ansel Adams meets photographer Edward Weston at Albert Bender's. William Colby, executive director of the Sierra Club, invites Adams to ...

We associate Yosemite with the photographs of Ansel Adams, who acknowledged Watkins ... Weston Naef, a photography curator and co-author of a book about Watkins, described him as “probably ...

In 1980, the celebrated photographer Ansel Adams received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The accompanying citation read: "At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the ...