Few American artists have reached a wider audience or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime than Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams had a profound impact on how Americans see the majesty or their continent and helped transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. A visionary photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique and a crusader for the environment, this portrait of Adams portrays the great artist and...

"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...

Drawing on a vast array of correspondence, interviews, and published and unpublished works, Spaulding illuminates Adams's place in modern art and the environmental movement. He explores the photographer's early influences - the tensions in Adams's once-wealthy family, his adventures in the Sierra Nevada, and his participation in the art colonies of California and New Mexico. His friendships with leading artists, including Dorothea Lange, Georgia O'Keefe,...

Ansel Adams was twelve years old when he received his first camera on a trip to Yosemite National Park. He spent the rest of his life taking photographs and advocating for conservation. Kate Coombs' engaging story and Carme Lemniscates' beautiful art bring Adams to life for young readers, encouraging little naturalists to Be Adventurous and Be Creative.

Forty of Ansel Adams's black and white photographs are accompanied by his commentary upon taking them.

Reconstructs the life and career of photographer Ansel Adams, drawing on the letters and words of Adams, his family, friends, and colleagues and featuring a selection of his famous photographs.