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Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
	Author: Ansel Adams Publisher: Bulfinch Category: Book List Price: ~~$45.00~~ Buy New: $11.00 You Save: $34.00 (76%) Buy New from $59.60 Avg. Customer Rating: (15 reviews) Sales Rank: 470842 Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 177 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8 Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.3 x 0.8 ISBN: 0821215515 Dewey Decimal Number: 770.924 EAN: 9780821215517 ASIN: 0821215515 Publication Date: November 30, 1983 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Each of Adams 40 photographs presented here is accompanied by an engaging narrative that explores the technical and aesthetic problems presented by the subject and includes reminiscences of the places and people involved.

Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews... Black & White from the pro March 26, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful It is always great to have the chance to glimpse the work process of the masters in photography. This book provides enough information for anyone wanting to better their work in black & white and to learn from the best. adams ansel examples December 7, 2007 Inspiring, fascinating, revealing. Ansel Adams writes "the story behind the pictures", the why, the how. Not necessarily or always the "technical" details, but certainly the "artistic" inspiration. The reproductions of his photos are good, although having just had the pleasure of seeing the actual photos in Washington DC, they simply cannot convey the complete splendor and impact of the originals. Well worth reading! beautiful July 22, 2007 0 out of 2 found this review helpful I bought this book to give to my kids. My mother gave me one 20 years ago. Ansel Adams took portraits of my Great Grand Parents and put it in this book. I want my kids to have copies. If you are a photographer, there is a lot of info about how he took the pictures. Beautyful and interesting book June 26, 2007 2 out of 4 found this review helpful Nice to be able to go back to basics in these times of megapixels and gigabytes. A charming insight into the soul of a great photographer April 27, 2007 3 out of 3 found this review helpful There are many great books about photography, of which this is just one, but there are relatively few books about how to be a great photographer. On the latter topic this book is exceptional. Ansel Adams was clearly both a gentleman and a gentle man, who lived to create great images for the pleasure and education of others. We are exceptionally lucky that he left us both his wonderful pictures, but also a few books which explain not only how, but also why some of them were created. This book covers a photography career of over 60 years, taking 40 of his greatest pictures, and describing how they were made. Although much of the technical advice is still valid today, a lot of it requires on the fly translation from the language of large format cameras and glass plates to the world of digital SLRs, with tiny sensors and vast memory cards. That exercise might put some people off, but it makes you think harder about his advice, and that's a good thing. However, where this book really scores is with the human stories of how and why Adams made certain pictures. Two examples stick in my mind. Firstly, how one of his iconic views of Yosemite was made after a day's hard hiking with a full size view camera, large wooden tripod, and just twelve glass plates. He suspected that he had wasted the first eleven, and had just one left for a favourite view of Half Dome. He took extra care with that one, and the results are still thrilling 80 years on. Then there's his tale of photographing 50s Californian farming families. This is a charming insight into how a great photographer of people develops both trust and ideas, lubricating both with an appropriate supply of beer. You suspect these days were not so hard for Adams as the great Yosemite hikes. "Examples" also contains some remarkable philosophical insights into the process and role of photography. The one which now sticks foremost in my mind is that enthusiasm for a subject will not create great photographs - you have to visualise the image and its impact mentally, then make it. This is perhaps the single most powerful piece of advice in the book. In 1935 Adams was concerned that the advent of 35mm would result in a vast number of bad photographs. Yet he was keen on the new medium, because he could also see its benefits. The same page could be written ten times over about digital photography, but you know that had Adams lived a little longer he would have been a keen PhotoShop-er. This is a good book on photographic technique, but there are others. But there are few books which give such an insight into the soul of a great photographer.

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