"It is hard to tell which has shaped the other more," David Brower wrote in 1980, "Ansel Adams or the Sierra Club." In the 1930s, Adams's photos of places like Kings Canyon and the Grand Tetons contributed greatly to the Sierra Club's successful campaigns to preserve wilderness. Though politically influential, Adams's work was, at its core, pure art. "Beauty comes first," he said. In that spirit, the Smithsonian Institution, Nature's Best Photography magazine, and the Wilderness50 Coalition, of which the Sierra Club is a member, collaborated on a photo competition celebrating the preservation of America's wild places-and the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act.
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