Ansel Adams and the American Landscape

Ansel Adams and the American Landscape
Author: Jonathan Spaulding
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520216631

Spaulding provides a full biography and a critical analysis of the work of the man who introduced the general public to photography as art.

Digital Landscape Photography

Digital Landscape Photography
Author: Michael Frye
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 178157359X

Updated, expanded, and covering the latest software, this new edition of the bestselling Digital Landscape Photography brings the amazing techniques pioneered by Ansel Adams and his contemporaries to every digital photographer. Ansel Adams' imagery - especially his iconic vision of the American National Parks - is widely published and instantly recognisable. Many photographers will have heard of his renowned Zone System, but that is just the tip of the iceberg; his unparalleled attention to detail, which once required hours in the darkroom with specialist tools, is finally accessible to all. Michael Frye's own photography provides many stunning examples of the results that can be achieved, and as one of Adams' natural successors in the field, he is well placed to analyse the many inspirational shots from the great masters of landscape photography. Combining the cutting edge of today's digital work with some of the best-known photos ever taken, this book a must-read for any landscape or nature photographer.

Making a Photographer

Making a Photographer
Author: Rebecca A. Senf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-02-08
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0300243944

An unprecedented and eye-opening examination of the early career of one of America’s most celebrated photographers One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902–1984) is famous for his dramatic photographs of the American West. Although many of Adams’s images are now iconic, his early work has remained largely unknown. In this first monograph dedicated to the beginnings of Adams’s career, Rebecca A. Senf argues that these early photographs are crucial to understanding Adams’s artistic development and offer new insights into many aspects of the artist’s mature oeuvre. Drawing on copious archival research, Senf traces the first three decades of Adams’s photographic practice—beginning with an amateur album made during his childhood and culminating with his Guggenheim-supported National Parks photography of the 1940s. Highlighting the artist’s persistence in forging a career path and his remarkable ability to learn from experience as he sharpened his image-making skills, this beautifully illustrated volume also looks at the significance of the artist’s environmentalism, including his involvement with the Sierra Club.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams
Author: Mary Street Alinder
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316437018

Discover this "evocative celebration of the life, career, friendships, concerns, and vision" of Ansel Adams, America's greatest photographer (New York Times) "No lover of Ansel Adams' photographs can afford to miss this book." - Wallace Stegner In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist, teacher, musician, and, above all, photographer.Illustrated with eight pages of Adams' gorgeous black-and-white photographs, this book brings readers behind the images into the stories and circumstances of their creation. Written with characteristic warmth, vigor, and wit, this fascinating account brings to life the infectious enthusiasms, fervent battles, and bountiful friendships of a truly American original. "A warm, discursive, and salty document." - New Yorker

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams
Author: Charles Gidley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2010
Genre: Photographers
ISBN: 9781568527567

"This splendid reappraisal of the life and work of one of America's greatest photographers presents close to one hundred photographs from every stage of his long and productive career. ... Ansel Adams: The American Landscape draws upon the work of experts in the field of photography and art history to address the various aspects of the photographer's work. Essays delineate the connections between his biography and artistic output, his technical achievements and innovations, and his place within the modernist currents of twentieth century art. A special section is reserved for his work on the Mural Project. Undertaken at the behest of the Department of the Interior, it became a photographic journey through the National Park Service. A final section looks at Adams's work documenting the life of Japanese internees during World War II at the Manzanar Relocation Center. Here the story is told in Adams's own words. Throughout, the text attempts to elucidate and contextualize the photography."--from the book jacket.

Natural Causes

Natural Causes
Author: Ansel Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 11
Release: 1998
Genre: Landscape photography
ISBN:

Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West

Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West
Author: Eva Weber
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Landscape photography
ISBN: 9781571458070

This book offers a broad collection of striking photographs--some familiar, many rare--by both well-known and unknown photographers. A distinguised historian of photography, the author, Eva Weber, brings a special perspective to this book with her discussions of the subjects and themes that have persisted and pervaded the photographs of the American West.