Ansel Adams
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1941, Ansel Adams photographed America's national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the country's natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was suspended after less than a year, but not before Adams had produced these images, which illustrate both his early innovations and the shape of his later, legendary career as America's foremost landscape photographer.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The photographs of Ansel Adams are among America's finest artistic treasures, and are the foundation of his legacy of environmental activism. The photographs of Yosemite National Park in this book features those selected by Adams during his lifetime to offer exclusively to part visitors as affordable souvenirs, to evoke a sense of awe and respect for nature. Many of these photographs have never before been published in book form. -- adapted from jacket...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Yosemite National Park and the High Sierra were the places closest to Ansel Adams' heart, and this magnificent new collection presents the finest selction of his photographs and writings yet published on this "vast edifice of stone and space." Inspired by their grandeur, their wildness, and their primeval mystery, Adams' photos came to represent America's National Parks. During his lifetime Adams published seven books of images from this region; this...
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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