PHO150 Digital Photography: Ansel Adams

Stunning portfolio of 65 full-page reproductions presents the magnificent landscapes, nature studies, still lifes, and portraits of this great American photographer. In addition to this visual delight, text covers Adams's life, work, teaching, directorship of the Sierra Club, more.

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.

This introductory book aimed at the serious novice photographer, is based upon Ansel Adam's theories about and techniques for visualizing and making a photograph. The book is illustrated with examples of Adams' own work as well as that of other photographers.

Gathers previously unpublished color photographs of the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, Mount McKinley, Mono Lake, Death Valley, and White Sands National Monument.

This is an atrractively priced photography classic made accessible to a wider, new audience. It covers everything from "seeing" the finished photo in advance, to lens choices. It is illustrated with many of Ansel Adams most famous images.

In Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Adams shares the circumstances surrounding the creation of many of his most celebrated images. Each classic photograph is superbly reproduced and accompanied by an entertaining and informative narrative that combines his own reminiscences of people and places with precise recall of technical details and aesthetic considerations. The specific technical information on camera and lens, filters, exposure times, developing, and printing provided in each example illustrates his approach and methods, and will help amateurs and professionals alike to advance their photography.

Ninety prints from the seven limited-edition portfolios of the noted photographer testify to Adams's sustained talent and continuing achievement.

More than one hundred magnificent photographs, reproduced under Adams's supervision, capture the awesome beauty of Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada, ranging from the intimate to the panoramic in scope.

Featuring 250 photographs by over 150 different artists, this book surveys fine art photography in American throughout the 20th century.

Gathers American photographs taken between 1839-1939 in a variety of processes and styles.

An engaging, illuminating group biography of the photographers of the seminal West Coast movement and the first in-depth book on Group f.64. Their name, f.64, they took from a very small lens aperture used with their large format cameras, a pinprick that allowed them to capture the greatest possible depth of field in their lustrous, sharply detailed prints. Featuring fifty photographs by and of its members, Group f.64 details a transformative period in art with narrative flair.

Includes short essays on the photographers (Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Brassai, Laura Gilpin, Man Ray, Josef Sudek, Edward Weston, and others) accompanied by one of their photos.