Binding: Hardcover
Description: America's greatest photographer on his greatest subject - - featuring the Yosemite Special Edition Prints a collectible collection of photographs selected by Ansel Adams during his lifetime yet never before published in book form. The photographs of Ansel Adams are among America's finest artistic treasures and form the basis of his tremendous legacy of environmental activism. In the late 1950s Adams selected eight photographs of Yosemite National Park to offer exclusively to park visitors as affordable souvenirs. He hoped that these images might inspire tourists to become activists by transmitting to them the same awe and respect for nature that Yosemite had instilled in him. Over the following decades Adams added to this collection to create a stunning view of Yosemite in all its majesty. These photographs the Yosemite Special Edition Prints form the core of this essential volume. Adams luminous images of Yosemite's unique rock formations waterfalls meadows trees and nature details are among the most distinctive of his career. Today with America's public lands increasingly under threat his creative vision remains as relevant and convincing as ever. Introduced by bestselling photographer Pete Souza with an essay by Adams darkroom assistant Alan Ross Ansel Adams Yosemite is a powerful continuation of Adams artistic and environmental legacies and a compelling statement during a precarious time for the American earth.
Title: Ansel Adams Yosemite The Special Edition Prints
Author(s): Adams Ansel
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Barcode: 9780316456128
Pages: 160 Pages, 100 Duotones
Publication Date: 10/29/2019
Category: Places & Peoples: General & Pictorial Works