Ansel Adams - Hardcover

Alinder, Maey Street

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805041168 ISBN 13: 9780805041163

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1996

Synopsis

An assistant to America's most famous photographer traces his life and career from his early years in San Francisco, his relationship with the Native Americans of Yosemite, and the influences on his photography and painting of western landscapes.

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Review:

A loving, minutely researched portrait of the photographer that acknowledges his humanity while confirming his enormous artistic contribution. (Los Angeles Times)

Ms. Alinder ably chronicles Adams's esthetic breakthroughs and career moves. (The New York Times)

[An] ennobling, moving book. (Houston Chronicle)

Alinder writes like the close and discerning friend that she was . . . [She] provides a clear and rather endearing portrait of this mercurial artist: stubborn and fiery in his convictions, devoted to his own pursuit of beauty. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Alinder is as lucid on the topic of Adams's technical mastery as on his environmentalism and aesthetics, and she also tackles the muddle of his contentious private life with aplomb and candor. (Booklist, starred review)

Book Description:

The definitive biography of Ansel Adams-revised and updated in a new edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0805041168
• ISBN 13: 9780805041163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 489