Ansel Adams: A Biography - Softcover

Alinder, Mary Street

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ISBN 10: 0805058354 ISBN 13: 9780805058352

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1998

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In his 1985 autobiography, Ansel Adams presented a life almost as neatly cropped and printed as his magnificent pictures. Here, Mary Street Alinder--who collaborated with Adams on his memoir and was his assistant in later life--is not reticent about the major emotional episodes in Adams's life, including his marriage and extramarital affairs, and his not-altogether-successful fatherhood. She explores the major artistic influences on his work and gives in-depth profiles of the significant figures in his circle. She also explains the technique and style Adams developed to obtain his unique vision, as well as his uneasiness at becoming a commodity. Ansel Adams: A Biography is an intimate and provocative portrait of the world's most famous photographer.In his 1985 autobiography, Ansel Adams presented a life almost as neatly cropped and printed as his magnificent pictures. Here, Mary Street Alinder--who collaborated with Adams on his memoir and was his assistant in later life--is not reticent about the major emotional episodes in Adams's life, including his marriage and extramarital affairs, and his not-altogether-successful fatherhood. She explores the major artistic influences on his work and gives in-depth profiles of the significant figures in his circle. She also explains the technique and style Adams developed to obtain his unique vision, as well as his uneasiness at becoming a commodity. Ansel Adams: A Biography is an intimate and provocative portrait of the world's most famous photographer.

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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.

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