Ansel Adams : 400 photographs / edited by Andrea G. Stillman.
"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. |
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Summary
Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs
Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs presents the full spectrum of Adams' work in a single volume for the first time, offering the largest available compilation from his legendary photographic career. Beautifully produced and presented in an attractive landscape trim, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs will appeal to a general gift-book audience as well as Adams' legions of dedicated fans and students. The photographs are arranged chronologically into five major periods, from his first photographs made in Yosemite and the High Sierra in 1916 to his work in the National Parks in the 1940s up to his last important photographs from the 1960s. An introduction and brief essays on selected images provide information about Adams' life, document the evolution of his technique, and give voice to his artistic vision. Few artists of any era can claim to have produced four hundred images of lasting beauty and significance. It is a testament to Adams' vision and lifetime of hard work that a book of this scale can be compiled. Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs is a must-have for anyone who appreciates photography and the allure of the natural world.