Beautifully designed and clearly presented, the 400 images in this book represent the finest work of an incomparable landscape photographer.
The photographs are arranged chronologically into five major periods—with accompanying information—tracing Ansel Adams's (1902-1984) artistic development from his earliest photographs in 1916 to his final impressive photograph from 1968.
At the age of fourteen, he received his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, which he used to take his first family photographs during a vacation in Yosemite National Park. It marked the beginning of a career that soon placed him among America's best-known and most beloved photographers.
400 Photographsis intended as a reference work—a must-have for every lover of photography and natural beauty. Few artists or photographers have been able to lay claim to 400 images of such timeless and profound beauty.
The book is, in a sense, a blueprint of Ansel's vision. It is a beautifully designed edition entirely in keeping with Ansel's style: "Adams took the long view of life. It seems fitting that his camera's usual position was a considerable distance from the subject, the long view." (Andrea G. Stillman, 2006,400 Photographs).
Over the course of his six-decade career, Ansel Adams was not only America's foremost landscape photographer, but also a passionate environmentalist. He fought to preserve America's wilderness. Andrea G. Stillman, a former staff member at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, edited seven publications for The Ansel Adams Trust, includingThe American Wilderness,Our National ParksandAnsel Adams in Color. In 1980, he received thePresidential Medal of Freedomfrom President Jimmy Carter.
400 Photographs- Ansel Adams
Pages: 432
Price: € 30.99 | Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316117722
