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This is a beautiful book … massive both in content and style; a lot of book for your money - Refresh magazine.
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Ansel Adams's legendary photographs inspire an appreciation for natural beauty and conservation that has communicated down the generations. His ambition was not simply to record the landscape, but to capture his emotional and spiritual response to the wild areas that he loved so deeply. The results are spectacular: an emotional charge and passion shine through the prints with an intensity that is as powerful today as it was over sixty years ago. In 1941, Ansel Adams was commissioned by the United States Interior Department to take photographs of the National Parks to be printed as murals for the walls of the new Interior Department building. This couldn't have been closer to his heart: it combined a commercial assignment with his personal, creative work he referred to as ''within''. The ''within'' was the work that encapsulated his emotional reaction to the landscape - when he, the camera and the landscape were at one. Unfortunately, the project was curtailed with the outbreak of World War II and the mural was never produced. The majority of pictures in this book are from the National Parks Mural Project, but also include work from other projects. The Kings Canyon photographs, taken in 1936, were successfully used to lobby for Kings Canyon to be designated a National Park. There is an exuberant photograph of an apple tree in snow taken at Yosemite, as well as the images taken for a documentary project during the war when Japanese Americans were interned at the Manzanar Relocation Centre.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is very much a large format coffee table book, which is the promising part. However when you flip the pages and see the placement of the image, the disruption to the image created but the fold/crease in the book detracts from the impact.
There is no doubt that Ansel magnificently captures images and this book brings together some lesser known works. However if he was to see some of the reproductions, I'm sure he wouldn't be best pleased with the lack of depth to the blacks and washed out skies that taint some of the images.
The book is split nicely into themes though, with brief text about each of the images.
There is no doubt that Ansel magnificently captures images and this book brings together some lesser known works. However if he was to see some of the reproductions, I'm sure he wouldn't be best pleased with the lack of depth to the blacks and washed out skies that taint some of the images.
The book is split nicely into themes though, with brief text about each of the images.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I agree with the previous reviewer- most of the prints in this book are spoilt by being split (unnecessarily, given the size of the book) across the spine, the print quality in general is poor, with low contrast in comparison with the original prints or better quality books, and many of the prints aren't sharp- again, direct comparison with another book of his prints (the excellent "Examples- The Making of 40 Photographs") shows what is possible in comparison.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this book in a local bookstore today and wondered whether my son might like it as a surprise birthday present. Before buying it, I thought it best to do some 'research': and what better place to start than Readers' Reviews on Amazon ? Within a couple of minutes I found that a) he had the book already, and b)he didn't like it ! So, the book gets 1 Star and Amazon gets 5 !
You see, smokeydan is my son and, imagine my surprise when I discover that, unbeknown to me, he had entered a Review here ! (an amazing coincidence, LOL )
On further inspection of this review, I realise that it is far from constructive. As mentioned by reviewers above, the reproductions are ill-planned both in their positioning on the page ( extending over two pages with no thought to the affect of the center-fold ) and the poor quality of reproduction. Had they mastered ( or perhaps heard of ) Adams' Zone System, they may have tried harder. ( a quick google will link you to an excellent article on the 'luminous-landscape' site )
The search for his present continues !
You see, smokeydan is my son and, imagine my surprise when I discover that, unbeknown to me, he had entered a Review here ! (an amazing coincidence, LOL )
On further inspection of this review, I realise that it is far from constructive. As mentioned by reviewers above, the reproductions are ill-planned both in their positioning on the page ( extending over two pages with no thought to the affect of the center-fold ) and the poor quality of reproduction. Had they mastered ( or perhaps heard of ) Adams' Zone System, they may have tried harder. ( a quick google will link you to an excellent article on the 'luminous-landscape' site )
The search for his present continues !
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The size does it justice
Well, I agree with the other reviewers that the print quality isn't so good, but the sheer size of the book more than makes up for it. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2009 by Dr Zeus
Ansel Adams - Landscapes - Beautiful images
This book is value for money, full of beautiful images. It's large format is wonderful.
Published on 5 Feb 2009 by J. Percival
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