Ansel Adams - The American Wilderness

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A N S E LAD A M S
T H E A M E R I CAN
W I L D E R N E S S
EDITED BY ANDREA G. STIIXMAN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM A.TURNAGE
Here is the testament of a man who inspired a nation and fixed forever in the American vision these great and perishable wonders of the earth.
Wilderness was destiny for Ansel Adams from his first discovery of the natural beauty of his western homeland as a boy. And wilderness ordained his life through the years dedicated to exploring, photographing, and preserving "^Semite Valley, the High Sierra, and those other Edens vanishing with the American frontier.
Now, in this magnificent volume, the land he loved and strived to protect endures as he saw it-undefiled, incomparable-and is championed in words as eloquent and impassioned as his legendary photographs. From the coast of Maine to the remotest peaks of Alaska, in image after image, many published here for the first time, "the grandeurs and potentials of the one and only world which we inhabit" command... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A N S E LAD A M S
T H E A M E R I CAN
W I L D E R N E S S
EDITED BY ANDREA G. STIIXMAN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM A.TURNAGE
Here is the testament of a man who inspired a nation and fixed forever in the American vision these great and perishable wonders of the earth.
Wilderness was destiny for Ansel Adams from his first discovery of the natural beauty of his western homeland as a boy. And wilderness ordained his life through the years dedicated to exploring, photographing, and preserving "^Semite Valley, the High Sierra, and those other Edens vanishing with the American frontier.
Now, in this magnificent volume, the land he loved and strived to protect endures as he saw it-undefiled, incomparable-and is championed in words as eloquent and impassioned as his legendary photographs. From the coast of Maine to the remotest peaks of Alaska, in image after image, many published here for the first time, "the grandeurs and potentials of the one and only world which we inhabit" command astonishment and concern.
When inspiration for The American Wilderness, the first large-format book of his photographs to be published since ybsmite and the Range of Light (1979), came to him in 1982, Adams took note of the urgency of the task he was never to see completed: "The entire environment and our future is at stake The theme is ready and waiting."
How vital, then, is this summons to the clear realities of Nature-not only to behold in these scenes the subtleties of light and atmosphere captured and defined and to marvel at the particulars of time and place translated into eternity, but truly to share Adams' vision of the beauty of the world and to renew his pledge to a future held "in a delicate and precarious grasp."
If it is altogether fitting that, following his death in 1984, the Ansel Adams Wilderness should be established in honor of this great guardian of the wild, so too, is it appropriate, in a more intimate way, that this book be a monument to his life and art.
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