Ansel Adams: Our National Parks - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821219103 ISBN 13: 9780821219102

Publisher: Bulfinch, 1992

Synopsis

In the centruy and more since the establishment of the world's first national parks at Yosemite and Yellowstone, no one individual has been a more ardent champion of the national park idea than master photographer Ansel Adams. Over a span of six decades, beginning in 1916, Adams photographed America's great national parks, making thousands of pictures - some of them among the most memorble images of the natural scene ever created. In this book a selection of Adam's legendary photographs of over forty national parks and momuments is presented, along with a sampling of his impassioned letters, speeches and writing - all long out of print or never before published -about the critical issues facing the park system. These insightful, and sometimes controversial, writings by one of the great environmental thinkers of the twentieth century are as relevant today as when they were written.
Our National Parks will encourage you to take a deeper look at your national parks and wha they mean to you, to the nation and to the world.

About this title

Synopsis:

In the century or more since the establishment of the world's first national park at Yellowstone, no individual has rivaled Ansel Adams in his efforts to support the philosophical essence and practical evolution of the "national parks idea". In this book, photographs of the national parks and monuments are reproduced - the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Glacier, Grant Tetons, the Great Smoky Mountains and many others. From the 1930s to the 1980s, Adams concerned himself with every aspect of the national park system. This book includes a selection from his impassioned letters, speeches, writings and personal notes about the critical issues facing the parks.

About the Author:

Ansel Adams was a pioneering environmentalist and one of the truly great photographers of the 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bulfinch
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0821219103
• ISBN 13: 9780821219102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Andrea Gray Stillman, William A. Turnage