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Traces the life and career of Ansel Adams, including his childhood in San Francisco, his marriage and affairs, his relationship with the Native Americans of Yosemite, and the influences on his photography and painting of western landscapes.
Chronicles the lives and careers of the members of the West Coast photography movement, including such famous names as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston.
Discover this "evocative celebration of the life, career, friendships, concerns, and vision" of Ansel Adams, America's greatest photographer (New York Times) "No lover of Ansel Adams' photographs can afford to miss this book." - Wallace Stegner 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.Illustrated with eight pages of Adams' gorgeous black-and-white photographs, this book brings readers behind the images into the stories and circumstances of their creation. 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. "A warm, discursive, and salty document." - New Yorker
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.
Spaulding provides a full biography and a critical analysis of the work of the man who introduced the general public to photography as art.
Seeing straight is the first extensive examination of f.64's contribution to photography - a pure, unencumbered technique that emphasized seeing rather than fancy printing--Inside cover.
First published in 1996, Mary Street Alinder's biography of Ansel Adams remains the only full biography of one of the greatest American photographers. Alinder is a respected scholar, and also had a close connection to Adams, serving as his chief assistant in the last five years of his life. The portrait she creates of him is intimate and affectionate; it is also clear-eyed. She takes on his difficult childhood in San Francisco, the friendships and rivalries within his circle of photographers, his leadership in America's environmental movement, his marriage, his affairs, and his not-always-successful fatherhood. Enriched by her uniquely personal understanding of Adams the man, she explains the artistic philosophy that, paired with his peerless technique, produced an inimitable style. Her biography is likely to remain unrivaled. This new edition will bring the classic up to date and includes research that reveals new information and a deeper understanding of his greatest photographs. It will also include thirty-two pages of reproductions of Adams's work and snapshots of the artist and close friends.
This guide will introduce you to the vision, life, and culture that is The Sea Ranch. To help you understand our core philosophy and to give you a sense of what it is like to be part of this remarkable community, here is Living at The Sea Ranch, written in friendship by current owners.
Walker Evans's haunting images of Southern sharecroppers in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men were as revolutionary in their time as James Agee's text, and are now deeply ingrained in the American consciousness. In the first full biography of this intriguing and enigmatic artist, a leading authority on Evans looks beyond the anonymity of his work to reveal the obsessions behind it.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I never intentionally made a creative photograph that related directly to an environmental issue, though I am greatly pleased when a picture I have made becomes useful to an important cause. I cannot command the creative impulse on demand. I go out into the world and hope I will come across something that interests me. #2 I can still remember the light and the scene that was present when I was a child. I constantly return to the elements of nature that surrounded me in my childhood, both the vision and the mood. #3 I was born in San Francisco in 1902. My father was building a house on the dunes out beyond the Golden Gate, which was thirty years before the famous bridge was built to connect San Francisco to Marin County. I could see ships of every description enter and leave the embrace of the Golden Gate. #4 My father took a daily carriage from the end of the cable car line at Presidio Avenue to our home. On April 17, 1906, my father was away on business in Washington, D. C. Our Chinese cook, Kong, slept in the basement. That evening, the boom of the surf pounding on Baker Beach woke me up.