Editing Ansel Adams (section)

====''Monolith''====
[[File:Ansel-adams-monolith-the-face-of-half-dome - edit1.jpg|thumb|''[[Monolith, the Face of Half Dome]], Yosemite National Park, California'' (1927)<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/262595 | title = Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California | website = The Metropolitan Museum of Art | access-date = March 5, 2019 | archive-date = March 6, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190306062114/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/262595 | url-status = live }}</ref>]]

In 1927, Adams began working with [[Albert M. Bender]], a San Francisco insurance magnate and arts patron. Bender helped Adams produce his first portfolio in his new style, ''[[Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras]]'', which included his famous image ''[[Monolith, the Face of Half Dome]]'', which was taken with his Korona [[view camera]], using glass plates and a dark red filter (to heighten the tonal contrasts). On that excursion, he had only one plate left, and he "visualized" the effect of the blackened sky before risking the last image. He later said, "I had been able to realize a desired image: not the way the subject appeared in reality but how it ''felt'' to me and how it must appear in the finished print."{{Sfn |Adams|Alinder|1985|p=76}} One biographer calls ''Monolith'' Adams's most significant photograph because the "extreme manipulation of tonal values" was a departure from all previous photography. Adams's concept of visualization, which he first defined in print in 1934, became a core principle in his photography.{{sfn|Alinder|1996|p=53}}

Adams's first portfolio was a success, earning nearly $3,900 with the sponsorship and promotion of Bender. Soon he received commercial assignments to photograph the wealthy patrons who bought his portfolio.{{Sfn |Alinder|1996|p=62}} He also began to understand how important it was that his carefully crafted photos were reproduced to best effect. At Bender's invitation, he joined the [[Roxburghe Club]], an association devoted to fine printing and high standards in book arts. He learned much about printing techniques, inks, design, and layout, which he later applied to other projects.{{Sfn |Alinder|1996|p=68}}

Adams married Virginia Best in 1928, after a pause from 1925 to 1926 during which he had brief relationships with various women. The newlyweds moved in with his parents to save expenses.{{sfn|Alinder|1996|pp=48, 56}} The following year, they had a home built next door and connected it to the older house by a hallway.<ref name="Bevk 2013">{{cite news | last1 = Bevk | first1 = Alex | title = Ansel Adams' Childhood Home Hidden in Sea Cliff | url = https://sf.curbed.com/2013/9/23/10195118/ansel-adams-childhood-home-hidden-in-sea-cliff | access-date = March 3, 2019 | work = Curbed San Francisco | date = September 9, 2013}}</ref>