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Ansel Adams : 400 photographs / edited by Andrea G. Stillman.

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 (Author). Stillman, Andrea Gray. (Added Author).

Summary:

"In a career that spanned six decades, Ansel Adams produced a remarkable body of work that is at once an artistic tour de force and a powerful tribute to his beloved American wilderness. Adams was given his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, in 1916, and made his first photographs during a family vacation in Yosemite National Park. Thus began a career and a lifetime devoted to making indelible images of America's wild places, its national parks, and its great mountain ranges." "This book is the largest compilation of Adams' photographic oeuvre ever published. Organized chronologically, it presents the full range of his finest work, from early efforts in the 1920s, to his projects in the national parks in the 1940s, up through his last important photographs of the 1960s. Included are Adams' most popular images - many of them icons of twentieth-century art - as well as a number of masterly but little-known photographs."

"Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs offers a survey of his development as an artist, of the themes and subjects' that animate his work, and of the evolution of a style that is uniquely that of Ansel Adams - America's best-known and best-loved photographer."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780316117722
ISBN: 0316117722
ISBN: 9780316400794
ISBN: 0316400793
Physical Description: 440 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (page 430) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: The Long View -- 1916-1930 Yosemite and the High Sierra -- 1931-1939 Group f/64 and Alfred Stieglitz -- 1940-1949 National Parks and Monuments -- 1950-1959 Conservation, Publications, and Commissions -- 1960-1968 Carmel -- Notes on Selected Photographs.