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...

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.

"More than 110,000 ethnic Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes at the start of World War II and transported to desolate detention centers after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in early 1942. Paul Kitagaki's parents and grandparents were part of that group, but they never talked about their experience. To better understand, Kitagaki tracked down the subjects of more than sixty photographs taken by Dorothea...

Paying tribute to Ansel Adams and the California Sierra Nevada wilderness area named in his honor, a National Geographic photographer captures the fragile beauty of the High Sierras through the modern lens of digital photography.

To celebrate the centennial of America's National Park Service, "Picturing America's National Parks" brings together some of the finest landscape photography in the history of the medium, from America's most magnificent and sacred environments. Photography has played an integral role in both the formation of the National Parks and in the depiction of America itself, through this natural resource. From Yosemite to the most recent 2013 addition of Pinnacles...