Ansel Adams At 100 - Hardcover

Szarkowski, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316858625 ISBN 13: 9780316858625

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2001

Synopsis

ANSEL ADAMS AT 100 will be published in conjuction with an outstanding international exhibition that will open in August 2001 at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and travel for more than two years to Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and London. This exhibition and the book that accompanies it will present, along with a fresh look at Adams' classic images, an unexpected and sometimes unfamiliar body of his work, offering the first serious effort to reconsider Adams' contribution to the art of photography in half a century. A critical and interpretive essay on this master photographer by John Szarkowski speaks of the importance of Adams as a modern artist. The book boasts extremely high production values, featuring 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. Without a doubt, this will be the most important and influential book yet published on Ansel Adams.

About this title

Review:

"A book that's also art." The New York Times"

"Long after the museum tour of "Ansel Adams at 100 "ends, this book will endure as a vital document of his vast contribution to the art of landscape." San Diego Union Tribune"

"[Szarkowski's] incisive biographical essay and reproductions worthy of Adams' exacting standards make [the book] a fitting monument to an American visionary." Artnews"

"[Adams] probably did as much as any artist of the 20th century to shape the American psyche, to change our perception of the world...These pictures strive for classical purity, order, and finality." Washington Post"

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 this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0316858625
• ISBN 13: 9780316858625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208