Adams, Ansel: The Spirit Of Wild Places

This is an enthusiastic survey of Ansel Adams' varied career--from commercial photographer to avant-garde modernist and finally standard-bearer of "pure" photography. His well-known photographs of America's national parks--featured in this volume--are remarkable for their timeless celebration of the nation's unblemished landscape. Ansel Adams was an artist and conservationist, a visionary and pragmatist. The extraordinary work of Ansel Adams--artist and conservationist, visionary and pragmatist--is a permanent record of America's wild beauty achieved by a man whose own nature was as immutable as the earth he loved.