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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A cheap collection of many of Adams' famous photos. Printing this bad obscures the great photographer's artistry. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Book Description
This tiny treasure is a glorious tribute to Ansel Adams and to the vanishing landscape he loved. The often stunning and sometimes subtle beauty of America's national parks has been captured forever in the evocative images of Ansel Adams, the most admired photographer of our time. These photographs demonstrate the genius of Adams's technical and aesthetic inventiveness and expressed his deepest convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen. Other Details: Now in paperback! 120 illustratoins, 90 in full color.


About the Author
Ansel Adams (1902-1984), the author of more than a dozen books, helped establish the department of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Alice Gray is a writer and editor based in Louisville, Kentucky.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The often stunning and sometimes subtle beauty of America's national parks has been captured forever in the evocative images of Ansel Adams, the most admired photographer of our time. These photographs demonstrate the genius of Adams's technical and aesthetic inventiveness and expressed his deepest convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen.

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