The triumph of the American landscape

Celebrate National Park week with these iconic images by Ansel Adams

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Grand Teton National Park.
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
(Image credit: Panorama of valley from mountain.)

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
(Image credit: View across the river valley toward Mt. Moran.)

Canyon de Chelle, Arizona
(Image credit: Navajo woman and infant)

Grand Canyon, Arizona
(Image credit: Close panorama of a curved cliff.)

Saguaro National Monument, Arizona
(Image credit: A cactus and its surroundings.)

Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico
(Image credit: The side of an adobe house. (Ansel Adams/NARA))

Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
(Image credit: The rock of ages in the big room with two people in the background.)

Boulder Dam, Colorado River
(Image credit: (Ansel Adams/NARA))

San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
(Image credit: (Ansel Adams/NARA))

Glacier National Park, Montana
(Image credit: St. Mary's Lake, looking across toward snow-capped mountains.)

Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
(Image credit: Church entrance gate.)

Tuba City, Arizona
(Image credit: Rows of a corn field.)

Zion National Park, Utah
(Image credit: The Court of the Patriarchs, a set of sandstone cliffs.)

Walpi, Arizona
(Image credit: Full view of the city on top of mountain.)

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
(Image credit: Jupiter Terrace — Fountain Geyser Pool.)

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.