Happy birthday to photographer Ansel Adams (20 February 1902–22 April 1984), who made America look even better than our best dreams of her, and did it in black and white.  Above, “The Tetons and the Snake River” (1942), which was included on the Voyager Golden Record, launched in 1977 to convey information about Earth to other worlds. “Moon and Half Dome” (1960): The man himself, photographed by Ron Partridge in the High Sierra, in 1938:

Happy birthday to photographer Ansel Adams (20 February 1902–22 April 1984), who made America look even better than our best dreams of her, and did it in black and white.  Above, “The Tetons and the Snake River” (1942), which was included on the Voyager Golden Record, launched in 1977 to convey information about Earth to other worlds.

“Moon and Half Dome” (1960):

Moon and Half Dome

The man himself, photographed by Ron Partridge in the High Sierra, in 1938:

Ansel Adams portrait

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