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Which conservation group counted Ansel Adams as a longtime member and board director?
Adams's photographs of the Sierra Nevada helped support the campaign to create Kings Canyon National Park.
Ansel Adams is best known for landscape photographs in which color format?
Without color, Adams used contrasts in light and shadow to show the shape and texture of mountains and trees.
Ansel Adams repeatedly photographed Half Dome in which national park?
Adams received his first camera, a Kodak Brownie, during a family trip to Yosemite when he was 14.
Ansel Adams's Zone System helps photographers control which part of an image?
Adams and Fred Archer developed the system so photographers could predict how a scene would look in the finished print.
Dorothea Lange's photographs of struggling migrant farmworkers are linked to which economic crisis?
Government agencies hired Lange to document poverty and rural hardship as part of New Deal relief efforts.
Before her documentary work, Dorothea Lange ran a portrait studio in which California city?
Photographing unemployed people on San Francisco's streets drew Lange from paid portraits toward documentary work.
Which photographer took "Migrant Mother", a famous image of a worried mother surrounded by her children?
Lange made several exposures of the family, moving closer before taking the famous portrait.
Dorothea Lange photographed the wartime confinement of which group in the United States?
The government kept many of Lange's photographs of Japanese American confinement from public view during World War II.
Which 19th-century process produced a unique image on a silver-coated copper plate?
Announced in 1839, Daguerre process made a one-of-a-kind direct positive on a silver-plated copper sheet, with no negative for copies.