Ansel Adams poses in front of one of his photographs - taken in Yosemite National Park, "Monolith: The Face of Half Dome, 1927," - at his home in Carmel Highlands, California on 2 December 1980.

Ansel Adams (20 February 1902 � 22 April 1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California.

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