Review
"A book that's also art."--Publishers Weekly "The New York Times "
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Book Description
The most significant book yet on master photographer Ansel Adams
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Product Description
Published in conjuction with an international exhibition starting in August 2001 at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco - Adams' home town. The exhibition and book are intended to present, along with a fresh look at Adams' classic images, an unexpected and sometimes unfamiliar body of Adams' work, offering a serious effort to reconsider Adams' contribution to the art of photography in half a century. A critical and interpretive essay on Adams by John Szarkowski explores Adams as an important modern artist. The book features 110 tritone images printed on a special paper, a linen cloth binding with matching slipcase and a reproduction print (suitable for framing) embossed with the AA seal and inserted in an envelope at the back of the book.
From the Publisher
In celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Little, Brown proudly publishes this most significant book ever produced on his work - an oversize centennial volume, destined to be the definitive book on this great American artist. The Centennial Exhibition - Ansel Adams at 100 - arrives at the Hayward Gallery, London in July 2002.
About the Author
In a career that spanned more than five decades, Adams was America's foremost landscape photographer and an ardent environmentalist. Szarkowski has been the most revered photography curator and critic in America for over 40 years.
