Members of the Yonemitsu family in their living room, left to right: son, Michael, seated, facing right; father, Francis, seated facing slightly left, reading newspaper; daughter, Lucy, seated, facing slightly left, reading the newspaper over her father's shoulder. Ansel Easton Adams (1902 – 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West. During part of his career, he was hired by the US Government to record life in the West.