Yosemite Range Light Introduction Paul by Adams Ansel (9 results)

Condition: Very good. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company), (1979)., (1979). Very good. - Small oblong quarto, 9 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial gray wraps. The edges of the covers are slightly rubbed. 28 & [14] pages plus profuse full-page black & white illustrations from photographs by Ansel Adams. Very good. First edition, wraps issue. Prepared by the New York Graphic Society for the Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of the exhibition "Ansel Adams and the West", which was shown at the museum from September 8 to October 28, 1979. A checklist of the exhibition is included in this edition.

3rd printing. Oblong octavo, softbound, 28, 116, [iii] pp. Photos. Near-Fine. Photography, California.

Oblong Folio. 28 pp. Photo frntsp., 115 photos. Quarter-burgundy cloth, over blue boards (slght shlfwr, vry slght sunng to lwr fore-edge), w/ d.j. (1 vry sml clsd tear), VG/VG. First edition of this stunning photo essay on Yosemite.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Fourth Printing. 116 plates Oblong quarto a fine clean copy in a fine dust jacket Signed by Adams on a bookplate dated 1981 from Time/Life who disributed the book.

Soft cover. Dust Jacket Included. Third Printing, 1980. A splendid production by the Graphic Society, the book measures 15.5" wide by 12.25" tall. Bound in finely woven textured gray cloth boards and cranberry cloth spine. Very clean and tight thoughout with a little wrinkle at the bottom edge of the front inside corner. With 116 duotone plates. In a splendid dust jacket featuring two wonderful Yosemite photographs by Adams. With the original price of $75.00 at the top of the inside front flap. Affixed to the front endpaper is a sticker signed by Ansel Adams stating: "This copy of Yosemite and the Range of Light by Ansel Adams is one of a special edition prepared for Time/Life Books subscribers with the signature of the photographer. Carmel, California. 1980." Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed in exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography. Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. Adams was a key advisor in establishing the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department's first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. (Wikipedia).

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A splendid oblong folio edition measuring 15.5" x 12.25". Handsomely bound with finely woven burgundy linen cloth spine stamped brightly in gold and woven gray cloth boards. In a near fine dust jacket with photos of Yosemite on the front and rear panels. Price-clipped at the top of the inside from flap. Very clean and tight throughout; a near-fine copy with the photographer's signature, "Ansel Adams"(underscored), on the half-title page. A collector's copy. "Seeing these photographs together brought back the exhilaration of my youth, absorbing the beauty of both lichen and distant peak, the sound of wind and water, and the ever-present benediction of light." (Ansel Adams). Ansel Easton Adams (1902 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed during exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography.Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.Adams was a key advisor in establishing the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department's first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. (Wikipedia) First Edition with matching dates of 1979 on the title and copyright pages and the statement "First Printing" at the bottom of the copyright page.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Signed first edition, first printing of Yosemite and the Range of Light by Ansel Adams. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Oblong folio, 28pp text, [116 photo illustrations]. Blue cloth, red cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, internally fine. Photographs in fine condition. In the publisher's dust jacket, $75.00 retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by the photographer on a special bookplate for Time/Life Books subscribers, signed in Carmel, California in 1981. Ansel Adams (1902-1984), lifelong photographer and conservationist, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Signed first edition, first printing of Yosemite and the Range of Light by Ansel Adams. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Oblong folio, 28pp text, [116 photo illustrations]. Blue cloth, red cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, internally fine. Light sunning along lower edge of text block. Photographs in fine condition. In the publisher's dust jacket, $75.00 retail price on front flap, faint shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by the photographer on the half title. Ansel Adams (1902-1984), lifelong photographer and conservationist, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Cloth. First edition. Oblong folio, uunpag.; two-tone cloth. This copy has been signed by Adams on the half title. In addition, Adams has signed and dated (9/11/79) a loosely inserted ticket stub from John Szarkowski's MOMA lecture that was given during the contemporary exhibition "Ansel Adams and the West." Just about fine in a crisp, price-clipped but unworn dust jacket, the spine of which shows a hint if sun.