Summary: Overview: Looking At Ansel Adams is a personal and penetrating study that explores Ansel's life as an artist by looking closely at the stories behind 20 of his most significant images. Immediately recognizable photographs like Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, and Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake are turned on their axes and seen from a new angle, along with ancillary photographs, alternative versions, and letters and postcards that relate to these beloved icons. Less familiar but equally important photographs provide unexpected insight into Ansel's creative and personal life. For anyone with a love of the American wilderness and an interest in the life and work of the country's most revered landscape photographer and environmental advocate, Looking At Ansel Adams is an essential and deeply satisfying book.
Content Notes:
Cast of characters -- Introduction -- 1: Lodgepole pines -- 2: Mount Clarence King -- 3: Monolith -- 4: St Francis Church -- 5: Still life -- 6: Frozen lake and cliffs -- 7: Grass and water -- 8: Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox -- 9: Clearing winter storm -- 10: Moonrise -- 11: Winter sunrise -- 12: Alfred Stieglitz and a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe -- 13: Trailer-camp children -- 14: Mount Williamson -- 15: Edward Weston -- 16: Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake -- 17: Sand dunes -- 18: Aspens -- 19: Moon and Half Dome -- 20: El Capitan -- Author's note -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Credits -- Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-249) and index. 2 3 20 21
ISBN:
9780316217804 0316217808
Accession Number:
2012014692
Accession Number:
776523649
Accession Number:
ccp.1065873
Holdings
Branch: Bees Ferry West Ashley Library - Biography Area
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