Ansel Adams. Career Milestones

Adams published his first photographic portfolio, *Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras*, which included his famous image *Monolith, the Face of Half Dome*.

Adams had a one-person exhibition, *Pictorial Photographs of the Sierra Nevada Mountains*, at the Smithsonian Institution.

Adams exhibited his photographs at Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place Gallery in New York.

Adams developed the Zone System of exposure and development, a technique that became central to his photographic method.

Adams was hired by the Interior Department to photograph national parks and monuments, leading to iconic works like *Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico*.