Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (Signed limited edition)

Adams, Ansel

Published by The Archetype Press, Berkeley, CA, 1938

About this Item

The famous early collection of Ansel Adams photographs taken along the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Limited to 500 copies, each signed by the artist, with 50 tipped-in photographic reproductions. A Near Fine copy with just slight soiling to the white cloth boards and a previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down; internally with all plates in excellent condition. A classic work from one of America s foremost photographers and environmentalists. Adams was famous for pioneering a number of important techniques which helped mark his signature black and white style and was, during his lifetime, "recognized as the foremost landscape photographer on earth." (The Atlantic) "Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail" was compiled as a collection of Adams work in an attempt to preserve Sequoia and Kings Canyon and have them declared as national parks which happened two years after publication, in 1940, in part as a result of this book. The collection includes some of his most famous work, such as Half-Dome. John Szarkowski, Director of Photography at MOMA wrote: "Ansel Adams attuned himself more precisely than any photographer before him to a visual understanding of the specific quality of the light that fell on a specific place at a specific moment… This sensibility to the specificity of light was the motive that forced Adams to develop his legendary photographic technique." Adams himself was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 6764

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (Signed ...

Publisher: The Archetype Press, Berkeley, CA

Publication Date: 1938

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First edition.