Screen LibraryAnsel Adams : 400 photographs /
"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 fami...
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Little, Brown,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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"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 pr "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. |
| Item Description: | Seventh printing: June 2019 |
| Carrier Form: | 440 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 430) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780316400794 9780316117722 0316117722 0316400793 |
| Index Number: | TR647 |
| CLC: | J431(712) |
| Call Number: | J431(712)/A211 |
| Contents: | 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. |