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Chronicler of San Francisco’s now-vanished Fillmore district who studied under Ansel Adams turned his lens on his people

San Francisco showcase brings together the photographer’s works alongside contemporary artists who build on it

Ansel Adams: rare photographs in stunning hi-definition

Rare photos taken by Ansel Adams from the collection of David H Arrington, a passionate collector of Adams’ photographs from the beginning, will be offered for sale from 17 February at midday in Sotheby’s New York

My best shot

Ansel Adams, Brassaï and Bill Brandt sitting on a bench: Paul Joyce’s best photograph

‘Ansel asked me if I was using his “zone system”. When I said I had my own method, he said I was probably using his unconsciously’

Visions of America by the greats – in pictures

Yosemite’s startling beauty, a sunbather in Santa Monica and Georgia O’Keeffe by the lake … a sale of vintage, modern and contemporary photography by Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange and others casts an almost nostalgic eye on America

The 1940s school that turned photography into art – in pictures

Mentored by the likes of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Edward Weston, photography students at the California School of Fine Arts explored everything from abstraction to documentary

Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 law to preserve California’s Yosemite Valley may have helped create the National Park Service but it was Carleton Watkins’ striking images that inspired the president

After 40 years, a cookbook by some of America’s best-loved photographers is being published for the first time

John Waters has turned his hand to art. The ‘Pope of Trash’ takes us on a tour of his work – and explains why he performed plastic surgery on Lassie

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Mr Turner, the Parthenon marbles and Miley Cyrus – the week in art

Turner’s record-breaking auction sale, the headless statue allowed to leave Britain for the first time, and rock karaoke at Art Basel. Plus the death of Clip Art and the pictures that changed photography

The pictures that changed photography

Audrey Hepburn and Afghan Girl: the pictures that changed photography – part four

A surrealist advert of Hepburn before she shot to fame, Steve McCurry’s famous green-eyed girl, and Ol’ Blue Eyes on stage at the Royal Albert Hall. Today’s trailblazing pictures range from the 1950s to the 90s

Nudes on sand and Ansel Adams: the pictures that changed photography – part three

Today’s selection of groundbreaking images comes from the interwar period, with glamorous propaganda shots, farmers in the Great Depression and moonrise in New Mexico as seen by the king of landscapes

Annie Leibovitz's favourite things, from Elvis's TV to Lincoln's top hat – in pictures

For two years, Annie Leibovitz wandered through America and Europe with one aim: to photograph the things that moved her most. Here’s her top five, including a bullet-shattered TV at Graceland and a pigeon skeleton studied by Darwin

Ansel Adams called him ‘the antichrist’ and wanted him written out of history. But William Mortensen’s grotesque photographs of death, nudity and torture and are now having their day. Chris Campion pays tribute to a master of the macabre

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The most radical year in art history, and a new Gangnam Style – the week in art

Jonthan Jones: Was 1913 the most avant garde year ever? Plus Anish Kapoor and pals do Gangnam Style, and Gerry Adams hangs in the National Portrait Gallery – all in today's weekly art dispatch

Old negatives bought by California painter are said to be work of famed photographer – though Adams trust denies it