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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Ansel Adams: The Camera (The Ansel Adams Photography Series 1) (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1)

Ansel Adams: The Camera (The Ansel Adams Photography Series 1) (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1) Review


This is an atrractively priced photography classic made accessible to a wider, new audience. It covers everything from "seeing" the finished photo in advance, to lens choices. It is illustrated with many of Ansel Adams most famous images. Read more...


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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Ansel Adams: America's Photographer

Ansel Adams: America's Photographer Review


The renowned--and revered--photographer would have been 100 years old in 2002. To celebrate the life of Ansel Adams, this biography takes young readers through his rich life: from the earthquake that broke his nose to the valley that shaped his world, revealing the humorous, artistic, and thoughtful personality behind his legendary work. Read more...


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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Ansel Adams: A Biography

Ansel Adams: A Biography Review


In his 1985 autobiography, Ansel Adams presented a life almost as neatly cropped and printed as his magnificent pictures. Here, Mary Street Alinder--who collaborated with Adams on his memoir and was his assistant in later life--is not reticent about the major emotional episodes in Adams's life, including his marriage and extramarital affairs, and his not-altogether-successful fatherhood. She explores the major artistic influences on his work and gives in-depth profiles of the significant figures in his circle. She also explains the technique and style Adams developed to obtain his unique vision, as well as his uneasiness at becoming a commodity. Ansel Adams: A Biography is an intimate and provocative portrait of the world's most famous photographer.
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Adams, Ansel: The Spirit of Wild Places

Adams, Ansel: The Spirit of Wild Places Review


Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.

An enthusiastic survey of Adams' varied career -- from commercial photographer to standard-bearer of "pure" photography -- this book presents the grand portraits of natural sites that testify to this modern master's genius. Read more...


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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Ansel Adams: New Light : Essays on His Legacy and Legend (Untitled)

Ansel Adams: New Light : Essays on His Legacy and Legend (Untitled) Review


'Ansel Adams: New Light, Essays on His Legacy and Legend' is the first book to examine the accomplishments of the 20th century's best-known photographer from a variety of critical and scholarly perspectives. The eight incisive essays view Adams' career in terms of its wide-ranging social, environmental and aesthetic ramifications, revealing not only its vast historical importance but also its ongoing impact on contemporary photographers. The book also contains testimonies on Adams' influence from photographers working to record today's environmental problems and two portfolio sections of pictures that illustrate the photographer's lasting legacy. Read more...


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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Ansel Adams: An American Place : 1936

Ansel Adams: An American Place : 1936 Review


In the Fall of 1936, Alfred Stieglitz presented an exhibition of Adam's photographs in New York City. As his assistant, I often heard his refer to the exhibit as the finest he had every had. Read more...


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Ansel Adams: Divine Performance

Ansel Adams: Divine Performance Review


Ansel Adams's magnificent photographs of the American wilderness are recognized and admired the world over. Adams is also a major cultural figure in American history, shaping many of our current views of the natural world through his compelling and accessible images. Despite his significance, little scholarly attention has been paid to Adams's contributions as an artist or his place in photographic history. This work addresses this gap by taking a look beyond the photographer's reputation as a Sierra Club environmentalist and examining in depth his life as an artist and the complexities of his creative vision. Photo historian Anne Hammond provides a nuanced discussion of the evolution of Adams's landscape art and the aesthetic significance of his work. To set his landscape photographs in historical and philosophical context, Hammond traces the development of Adams's prints in relation to his artistic consciousness. She also offers background on the contributions of scientific, literary and artistic individuals who inspired Adams's journey in the arts, including scientists and philosophers Joseph LeConte and Alfred North Whitehead, writers Edward Carpenter and Ella Young, and photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and Minor White. The concluding chapter of the volume provides a detailed criticism of the photographer's best work and shows the relation between these images and their maker's ethical and artistic commitments. Read more...


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Friday, February 17, 2012

Ansel Adams: Letters, 1916 - 1984

Ansel Adams: Letters, 1916 - 1984 Review


In his early years in Yosemite, Ansel Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. Among the family, friends, and colleagues with whom he corresponded rank such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Jimmy Carter. Read more...


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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs (Tiny Folio)

Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs (Tiny Folio) Review


In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the United States Department of the Interior to photograph 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 this group of breathtaking images, which illustrate both his early innovations and the shape of his later, legendary career as America's foremost landscape photographer. The invitation to photograph the nation's parklands was the perfect assignment for Adams, as it allowed him to express his deepest convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen. These stunning photographs of the natural geysers and terraces in Yellowstone, the rocks and ravines in the Grand Canyon, the winding rivers and majestic mountains in Glacier and Grand Teton national parks, the mysterious Carlsbad Caverns, the architecture of ancient Indian villages, and many other evocative views of the American West demonstrate the genius of Adams' technical and aesthetic inventiveness. In these glorious, seminal images we see the inspired reverence for the wilderness that has made Ansel Adams' work a most enduring influence on the intertwining spirits of art and environmentalism, both so necessary for the preservation of our natural world. Read more...


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It was the United States Department of Interior that commissioned Ansel Adams to document the country's national parks. Though the project was suspended after just one year because of World War II, Adams was still able to create quite a few astonishingly beautiful photographs of the American landscape. Arresting images of Yellowstone's geysers, the Grand Canyon's ravines, Glacier and Grand Teton national parks' mountains and the southwest's ancient adobes fill the book's pages. Perusing this palm-sized volume is akin to touring the country's natural monuments with this most gifted nature photographer along as a companion.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography Review


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. 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. Read more...


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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Ansel Adams: Miniature Art Book

Ansel Adams: Miniature Art Book Review


Ansel Adams is best known for a series of photographs he produced of America's natural heritage known collectively as the National Park Service Photographs, representative examples of which are reproduced here. This assignment was especially commissioned in 1941 by Harold Ickes of the United States Department of the Interior and the aim was to record for posterity areas that had been designated national parks, as well as portraying the Native American homelands and other monuments and areas of reclamation of the great American wilderness. These would also be used as photo-murals to decorate the walls of the Department of the Interior. Ickes was already familiar with Ansel's work having seen detailed studies of leaves and ferns which featured in an exhibition of 1936. Indeed, he liked them so much that he hung one in his own office. He eventually made Ansel's acquaintance when the photographer came to lobby Congress, seeking to have Kings River Canyon, California designated a national park.
Originally, only painted murals by established artists were thought suitable for inclusion in the Mural Project, as it came to be known, as photography had yet to be considered worthy of being regarded as an art form, rather than a way of recording or documenting reality; but Ickes was convinced that Ansel's work was artistically valid and would make its own inimitable contribution to the scheme.
The collection of works commissioned in 1941 was intermixed with earlier studies of the Kings Canyon area dating back to 1936, and these and the new prints were offered as part of the commission. The photographs are a pictorial testament to the majesty of the American West, captured with technical accuracy and imbued with sheer inventiveness and a deep empathy for the regions which Ansel sought to protect and maintain intact. They range from rivers and canyons, close-ups of plant life, Native American villages and their inhabitants, the mysterious and enigmatic underworld of the Carlsbad Caverns and the geysers and twisted forms of Yellowstone National Park. Together, they offer a visual feast and a source of delight and nourishment for the spirit. Read more...


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities

Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities Review


Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first metin Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career, and their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives.

GEORGIA O'KEEFE AND ANSEL ADAMS: NATURAL AFFINITIES suggests parallels in their distinctive visions of both natural and human-made environments and illustrates the artists' achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them. More than 100 beautifully reproduced paintings and photographs are accompanied by critical essays on Adams and O'Keeffe and a biographical essay on the friendship between Adams, O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz. Read more...


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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Ansel Adams: Our National Parks

Ansel Adams: Our National Parks Review


In the century since the establishment of the world's first national park at Yellowstone, no individual has rivaled Ansel Adams in his unceasing effort--through both his photographs and writings--to support the philosophical essence and practical evolution of the "national park idea". Here are his greatest images of more than 40 national parks and monuments. 78 duotones. Read more...


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Monday, November 14, 2011

Ansel Adams: Trees

Ansel Adams: Trees Review


The great American photographer Ansel Adams is justly famous for his heroic mountain landscapes. He is also a consummate photographer of trees and forest woodland, creating stirring portraits of giant oaks in Yosemite Valley and capturing the shimmering beauty of an aspen grove in New Mexico. This book will present some fifty of Adams' finest photographs of trees - a wide range of imagery from towering redwood groves to flowering orchards; majestic pine forest to leafy deciduous woods; wood and bark details to gnarled tree stumps; close-ups of snow-laden branches to leaf patterns against the sky; and, of course, many a portrait of the mighty trees of the Sierra and the American West. Accompanying the images will be text and poetry excerpts from a variety of writers and observers, both contemporary and historic. Drawn from natural history essays, poems, journals, photographers' and critics' observations, this anthology approach will complement and expand upon the reverence and passion for the beauty of trees so apparent in Adams' photographs. Read more...


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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Ansel Adams. Meisterphotos. Entstehung, Technik, Gestaltung Der 40 Berühmtesten Bilder.

Ansel Adams. Meisterphotos. Entstehung, Technik, Gestaltung Der 40 Berühmtesten Bilder. Review


München, Christian Verlag, 1983; Hardcover in dust jacket. 188 pages plus ads at rear. Many rich duo-tone photographs of Adam's master works. Read more...


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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Heaven on earth: Ansel Adams' America is a majestic place, as collectors of his photography will attest.(PHOTOGRAPHS): An article from: Antiques Roadshow Insider

Heaven on earth: Ansel Adams' America is a majestic place, as collectors of his photography will attest.(PHOTOGRAPHS): An article from: Antiques Roadshow Insider Review


This digital document is an article from Antiques Roadshow Insider, published by Belvoir Media Group, LLC on May 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1858 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Heaven on earth: Ansel Adams' America is a majestic place, as collectors of his photography will attest.(PHOTOGRAPHS)
Author: Daile Kaplan
Publication:Antiques Roadshow Insider (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2010
Publisher: Belvoir Media Group, LLC
Volume: 10 Issue: 5 Page: 11(3)

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Parks in Madera County, California: Yosemite National Park, Ansel Adams, Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Falls

Parks in Madera County, California: Yosemite National Park, Ansel Adams, Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Falls Review


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 144. Chapters: Yosemite National Park, Ansel Adams, Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Falls, Yosemite Valley, California, Geology of the Yosemite area, John Muir, History of the Yosemite area, Merced River, William Henry Jackson, El Capitan, Plains and Sierra Miwok, Yosemite West, California, Hetch Hetchy Railroad, John Muir Trail, California State Route 120, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Yosemite Firefall, Herbert A. Collins, Badger Pass Ski Area, Tuolumne River, Ken Marcus, O'Shaughnessy Dam, Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad, Galen Clark, Devils Postpile National Monument, Falls Creek, Mariposa Grove, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Benjamin W. Kilburn, Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Arthur Clarence Pillsbury, Ahwahnechee people, Jim Savage, Mount Dana, Wawona, California, Mount Conness, Mount Lyell, Cary Stayner, Chief Tenaya, Cathedral Peak, Vernal Fall, Ansel Franklin Hall, Theresa Yelverton, Tuolumne Meadows, Carl Sharsmith, Glacier Point, Camp 4, James Mason Hutchings, Curry Village, California, Wawona Hotel, LeConte Memorial Lodge, Mist Trail, Tioga Pass, J. Smeaton Chase, Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, Henness Ridge Fire Lookout, 1997 Merced River flood, Tioga Lake, Ostrander Lake, Tenaya Lake, Mount Clark, Lafayette Bunnell, Separate Reality, Tenaya Canyon, Parsons Memorial Lodge, Mount Gibbs, George Fiske, Bracebridge Dinner, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Clouds Rest, Nevada Fall, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite Village, California, Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Stations and Comfort Stations, Shirley Sargent, Parsons Peak, Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp, White Wolf, Cathedral Range, Fairview Dome, Matterhorn Peak, Mount Maclure, Pywiack Cascade, El Portal, California, Eagle Peak, Mount Hoffmann, Mount Starr King, Maclure Glacier, Crane Flat Fire Lookout, Lost Arrow Spire, Griz... Read more...


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Monday, October 17, 2011

Biography - Adams, Ansel (Easton) (1902-1984): An article from: Contemporary Authors

Biography - Adams, Ansel (Easton) (1902-1984): An article from: Contemporary Authors Review


This digital document, covering the life and work of Ansel (Easton) Adams, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3270 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:
  • Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
  • Family members
  • Education
  • Professional associations and honors
  • Employment
  • Writings, including books and periodicals
  • A description of the author's work
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Nature Photographers, including: Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Gene Stratton-porter, Peter Dombrovskis, Lennart Nilsson, Mattias Klum, Olegas Truchanas, ... Bullock, Eliot Porter, Frans Lanting, Ylla

Nature Photographers, including: Ansel Adams, Galen Rowell, Gene Stratton-porter, Peter Dombrovskis, Lennart Nilsson, Mattias Klum, Olegas Truchanas, ... Bullock, Eliot Porter, Frans Lanting, Ylla Review


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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Landscape Photographers, including: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Wynn Bullock, Raghubir Singh (photographer), Dave Currey ... Per Bak Jensen, Benjamin Brecknell Turner

Landscape Photographers, including: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Bill Brandt, Wynn Bullock, Raghubir Singh (photographer), Dave Currey ... Per Bak Jensen, Benjamin Brecknell Turner Review


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