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Ansel Adams: Divine Performance
Ansel Adams: Divine Performance
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Author: Anne Hammond
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book

List Price: $48.00
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1574126

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0300092415
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.92
EAN: 9780300092417
ASIN: 0300092415

Publication Date: May 1, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Ansel Adams's magnificent photographs of the American wilderness are recognized and admired the world over. Adams is also a major cultural figure in American history, shaping many of our current views of the natural world through his compelling and accessible images. Despite his significance, little scholarly attention has been paid to Adams's contributions as an artist or his place in photographic history. This work addresses this gap by taking a look beyond the photographer's reputation as a Sierra Club environmentalist and examining in depth his life as an artist and the complexities of his creative vision. Photo historian Anne Hammond provides a nuanced discussion of the evolution of Adams's landscape art and the aesthetic significance of his work. To set his landscape photographs in historical and philosophical context, Hammond traces the development of Adams's prints in relation to his artistic consciousness. She also offers background on the contributions of scientific, literary and artistic individuals who inspired Adams's journey in the arts, including scientists and philosophers Joseph LeConte and Alfred North Whitehead, writers Edward Carpenter and Ella Young, and photographers Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and Minor White. The concluding chapter of the volume provides a detailed criticism of the photographer's best work and shows the relation between these images and their maker's ethical and artistic commitments.


Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ansel in a new light!   May 11, 2006
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Here you will find information and insight you simply won't find in other books about Ansel. This is not a biography as such but rather a selective investigation into what made Ansel tick. Hammond has brought to bear formidable research talents and excellent writing skills to expose the inner workings, development, aesthetics and strivings of Ansel Adams in fascinating detail. Most highly recommended.


3 out of 5 stars not what you think   April 26, 2005
  1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book is NOT a biography of Anselm Adams or a "how-to take your own Anselm Adams-like photos" DIY. It has minimal biographical information (e.g., only 2 pictures of AA, including the cover photo, no information on his marriage or children, etc.). It does have a lot on the philisophical background of AA and his friends that led them to take and value the kind of images they made and admired, and reproduces many images made by AA and friends. It's a good book for what it is, but before you buy it, make sure that this is what you want.


5 out of 5 stars ansel adams as artist--at last !   April 27, 2004
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

To be an artist a great many thoughts have to pass through your head -in the case of photography, through the lens first into your eye. What this book shows,like no other before it on Adams, is that he was not just( ! ) a master craftsman ,but also a person with a true philosophical turn of mind, carrying him into a spiritual realm to put him on the heights with Scriabin, William James, Edward Carpenter, Alfred Stieglitz, and other leaders in the non-doctrinal world of humane and progressive traditon of turn-of-the-century theosophy. A mind-opener!

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