Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams: Landscapes of the American West Lauris Morgan-Griffiths,
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1847245021
DDC: 778
Edition: Hardcover; 2008-02-28
Summary:
Ansel Adams' legendary photographs inspire an appreciation for
natural beauty and conservation that has communicated down the
generations. His ambition was not simply to record the landscape, but
to capture his emotional and spiritual response to the wild areas
that he loved so deeply. The results are spectacular: an emotional
charge and passion shine through the prints with an intensity that is
as powerful today as it was over sixty years ago.In 1941, Ansel Adams
was commissioned by the United States Interior Department to take
photographs of the National Parks to be printed as murals for the
walls of the new Interior Department building. This couldn't have
been closer to his heart: it combined a commercial assignment with
his personal, creative work he referred to as "within". The "within"
was the work that encapsulated his emotional reaction to the
landscape - when he, the camera and the landscape were at one.
Unfortunately, the project was curtailed with the outbreak of World
War II and the mural was never produced.The majority of pictures in
this book are from the National Parks Mural Project, but also include
work from other projects. The Kings Canyon photographs, taken in
1936, were successfully used to lobby for Kings Canyon to be
designated a National Park. There is an exuberant photograph of an
apple tree in snow taken at Yosemite, as well as the images taken for
a documentary project during the war when Japanese Americans were
interned at the Manzanar Relocation Centre.
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