|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
 | | |
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."
- Sir Arthur Helps
| | | |
|
ZIN Product Number: 10140095
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 30 | | Price Range: | | $0.06 - 0.06 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 18 | | Price Range: | | $0.06 - 0.03 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 65 | | Price Range: | | $0.06 - 0.06 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 86 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 24 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 58 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 533 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520216636
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
| |  | | | In Brief
This biography of the American photographer examines 'Adams' family background; his interest in music; . . . his career in photography from age 14; . . . his relation to other photographers (in 1931, Adams was part of f/64, a group of San Francisco photographers including Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston); and his dedication to conservation.' -- San Francisco Review of Books
| | | | From The Publisher
Working with a cumbersome 8 x 10 field camera, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created some of the most dramatic and influential photographs ever made of the American West. His majestic landscapes and evocative still lifes conveyed a vision of an idealized America that helped inspire the wilderness conservation movement. Yet despite these accomplishments, Adams has been the least studied of our most important photographers. Now Jonathan Spaulding provides the first full biography of the artist and a critical analysis of his life's work. Refuting the myth of a solitary and carefree wilderness explorer, Spaulding portrays a man grappling with the question of how art and nature intersect in the modern world. He addresses the contradictions the photographer faced as both artist and activist: his struggle to balance art and commercialism; his desire to create art, yet enjoy bourgeois comforts; his simultaneous support for economic development, tourism, and wilderness preservation. Spaulding places Adams's work in the context of modernism and the other major developments in twentieth-century art and ideas. He examines his debt to the pioneering art photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, and his response to later artists. He traces Adams's growth as an environmental activist and discusses his use of photography to further the cause of conservation. Questions regarding the meaning and place of wilderness in modern culture remain with us today. By analyzing these issues through Adams's life and work, this book is a telling portrait of one of the century's greatest photographers and a reflection of our changing attitudes about the natural world.
Author Biography: JonathanSpaulding is an indepent scholar who received a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles. He lives and writes in Pasadena, California.
| | | | Annotation
Working with a cumbersome 8x10 field camera, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created some of the most dramatic and influential photographs ever made of the American West. His work conveyed a vision of an idealized America that helped inspire the wilderness conservation movement. This first full biography of Adams provides a critical analysis of his life's work.
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Be the first to rate this book! Number of Reviews: 0
| | | |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( A-C ) > Adams, Ansel
All Topics > Arts & Photography > Photography > Nature & Wildlife
All Topics > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Artists, Architects & Photographers
All Topics > Biographies & Memoirs > General
All Topics > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > United States > General
All Topics > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Political
All Topics > Categories > Photography Books > Photographers, A-Z > Adams, Ansel
All Topics > Categories > Photography Books > Nature & Wildlife
| | | | People like you also bought:
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Vol. 1, by Ansel E. Adams
Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Vol. 1, by James Alinder
The Diary of Frida Kahlo, by Sarah M. Lowe
The Journey Is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon, by Dan Eldon
Vermeer: A View of Delft, by Anthony Bailey
Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc, by Arthur I. Miller
The Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1, by Giorgio Vasari
The Universe in a Nutshell, by Stephen W. Hawking
| | | | | | Keywords
Biography/Autobiography, Individual Photographers And Their Work, Political, Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Historical - U.S., Nature & Wildlife, Biography, United States, Photographers, Biography/Autobiography, Individual Photographers And Their Work, Political, Biography & Autobiography, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Historical - U.S., Nature & Wildlife
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
