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The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1) by Ansel E. Adams, Robert Baker (Contributor)

Book Description: The Camera, together with The Negative and The Print , comprise The Ansel Adams Photography Series, a legendary triad of books about photographic technique that has become the most influential "how-to" series on photography ever written. The first edition of this series was completed in the 1950s. Adams completely revised and updated it just a few years before his death, making it his last word on the technical mastery of his medium. Three generations of photographers have learned how to approach the artistic possibilities of their art form through this seminal series. Now available in paperback, it remains as vital today as when it was first published.

The Camera covers 35 mm, medium format, and large-format view cameras and offers detailed advice on camera components such as lenses, shutters, and light meters. Adams' concepts of "visualization" and "image management" are the philosophical cornerstones of the book. Extensively illustrated with photographs by Adams as well as instructive line drawings, this classic manual belongs on every serious photographer's bookshelf.

The American Wilderness by Ansel E. Adams, William A. Turnage (Introduction)

Book Description: Ansel Adams devoted his life and work to the celebration and protection of America's unsurpassed wild spaces. The American Wilderness presents the heart of Adams' legacy in over 100 of his most powerful landscapes. He reveals primeval nature found across America: the coast of Mt. Desert, Maine, the dunes of White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, the Rio Grande River, the grand peaks of Yosemite and the High Sierra, and the most remote reaches of Denali National Park, Alaska. A selection of Adams' writings provides a stirring counterpoint to the images as he urges us all to perceive and cherish "the grandeur and potentials of the one and only world which we inhabit."

This is a magnificent volume, the first large-format book of Adams' work since Yosemite and the Range of Light. It was envisioned as a masterwork of fine bookmaking, sweeping in both subject and design, with extraordinarily beautiful printing in keeping with the originals. Adams' writings are printed on heavy, textured grey paper which is interleaved with the images. It is a vivid remembrance of the American wilderness-a stunning _expression of the subject closest to this artist's heart, and one of profound concern to the world today.

Yosemite and the High Sierra by Andrea G. Stillman (Editor), Ansel E. Adams, John Szarkowski (Illustrator)

Ingram: A compilation drawn from the photographer's classic books features several images from his last work, Yosemite and the Range of Light and includes excerpts from his most noted writings. 20,000 first printing.

Ansel Adams' California by Andrea Stillman (Editor), Ansel E. Adams, Page Stegner (Introduction)

Amazon.com: Ansel Adams may be one of the most famous nature photographers ever, but his often-overlooked portraits of people and images of buildings and manmade landscapes are as stirring and beautiful as his inimitable wilderness photographs. This is a manageably sized volume that collects images of the state's beaches, mountains, parks, architecture, and people, as well as writing--poems, essays, fiction--by authors such as John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, and Joan Didion . The combination of words and images is a visual and literary homage to California, a place that was home to and the source of inspiration for the great photographer.

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Mary Street Alinder (Contributor), Ansel E. Adams

Ingram: This popularly priced edition of Adams' acclaimed 1985 autobiography preserves all the text but reproduces fewer photographs than the original. With characteristic warmth, vigor, and wit, America's most beloved photographer-environmentalist recalls his extraordinary six-decade career. "A warm, discursive, and salty document."--The New Yorker. of photos.

Ansel Adams: A Biography by Mary Street Alinder

From Booklist: Alinder was Adams' assistant in his later years, helping curate the great photographer's 40,000 negatives and coauthor his best-selling autobiography. Now, a dozen years after Adams' death, Alinder presents a more complete portrait than Adams allowed. Adams came to photography at the tender age of 14, and it will come as no surprise that he was inspired to pick up the camera by his beloved Yosemite, his wellspring. Adams recognized early on that photography was his medium not for recording reality but for communicating his emotions. As Alinder traces the straight-forward course of Adams' dazzling career--pausing for cameos of numerous influential figures, including John Marin, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, and David Brower--she emphasizes the connection between his stunning landscape photography and his zealous work with the Sierra Club. Alinder is as lucid on the topic of Adams' technical mastery as on his environmentalism and aesthetics, and she also tackles the muddle of his contentious private life with aplomb and candor. The Adams that ultimately emerges from these warmhearted pages is a man of "boisterous spirits" and irrepressible creativity deeply devoted to his vision. Donna Seaman

Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography by Jonathan Spaulding

Book Description: Working with a cumbersome 8 x 10 field camera, Ansel Adams (1902- 1984) created some of the most dramatic and influential photographs ever made of the American West. His majestic landscapes and evocative still lifes conveyed a vision of an idealized America that helped inspire the wilderness conservation movement. Yet despite these accomplishments, Adams has been the least studied of our most important photographers. Now Jonathan Spaulding provides the first full biography of the artist and a critical analysis of his life's work. Refuting the myth of a solitary and carefree wilderness explorer, Spaulding portrays a man grappling with the question of how art and nature intersect in the modern world. He addresses the contradictions the photographer faced as both artist and activist: his struggle to balance art and commercialism; his desire to create art, yet enjoy bourgeois comforts; his simultaneous support for economic development, tourism, and wilderness preservation. Spaulding places Adams's work in the context of modernism and the other major developments in twentieth-century art and ideas. He examines his debt to the pioneering art photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, and his response to later artists. He traces Adams's growth as an environmental activist and discusses his use of photography to further the cause of conservation. Questions regarding the meaning and place of wilderness in modern culture remain with us today. By analyzing these issues through Adams's life and work, this book is a telling portrait of one of the century's greatest photographers and a reflection of our changing attitudes about the natural world.

Ansel Adams: The National Park Service Photographs by Ansel E. Adams (Photographer)

Amazon.com: 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.

Ansel Adams - A Documentary Film (2002) Video DVD

Amazon.com: Ric Burns's documentary for the American Experience series winningly persuades one to think of Ansel Adams as not only the greatest American photographer of the 20th century, but also one of its most treasured artists. Using the familiar formula of New York (and his brother Ken's documentaries), Burns vividly brings Adams's world to life. Narrator David Ogden Stiers is used minimally after the initial set-up, leaving the words to curators, authors, and family members who knew Adams's life and art best (Adams's own letters are also voiced). The film, sponsored by the Sierra Club to mark the 100th anniversary of the photographer's birth, makes a passionate plea for this man "who helped transfer the meaning of wilderness and what people thought about it." There is plenty of time for his magnificent pictures to be shown, often nicely accompanied by modern-day color films of the area. It's a must-see for any fan of Adams. --Doug Thomas