Why is adams considered by many to be "the most american photographer"

HE"S MERICAN' BECAUSE HE WAS FROM MERICA' DUH

That Is not true Adam is not  “The Most American Photographer,”  Lewis Baltz is actually considered  “The Most American Photographer,”.

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.