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Ansel Adams: Landscapes of the American West
	Author: Lauris Morgan-griffiths Publisher: Quercus Category: Book List Price: ~~$29.99~~ Buy New: $19.88 You Save: $10.11 (34%) Buy New from $19.88 Avg. Customer Rating: (3 reviews) Sales Rank: 1442172 Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 224 Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7 Dimensions (in): 16.6 x 14.1 x 1.3 ISBN: 1847245021 Dewey Decimal Number: 778 EAN: 9781847245021 ASIN: 1847245021 Publication Date: February 28, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Ansel Adams' legendary photographs inspire an appreciation for natural beauty and conservation that has communicated down the generations. His ambition was not simply to record the landscape, but to capture his emotional and spiritual response to the wild areas that he loved so deeply. The results are spectacular: an emotional charge and passion shine through the prints with an intensity that is as powerful today as it was over sixty years ago.In 1941, Ansel Adams was commissioned by the United States Interior Department to take photographs of the National Parks to be printed as murals for the walls of the new Interior Department building. This couldn't have been closer to his heart: it combined a commercial assignment with his personal, creative work he referred to as "within". The "within" was the work that encapsulated his emotional reaction to the landscape - when he, the camera and the landscape were at one. Unfortunately, the project was curtailed with the outbreak of World War II and the mural was never produced.The majority of pictures in this book are from the National Parks Mural Project, but also include work from other projects. The Kings Canyon photographs, taken in 1936, were successfully used to lobby for Kings Canyon to be designated a National Park. There is an exuberant photograph of an apple tree in snow taken at Yosemite, as well as the images taken for a documentary project during the war when Japanese Americans were interned at the Manzanar Relocation Centre.

Customer Reviews: So promising, yet you are left wanting November 18, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This is very much a large format coffee table book, which is the promising part. However when you flip the pages and see the placement of the image, the disruption to the image created but the fold/crease in the book detracts from the impact. There is no doubt that Ansel magnificently captures images and this book brings together some lesser known works. However if he was to see some of the reproductions, I'm sure he wouldn't be best pleased with the lack of depth to the blacks and washed out skies that taint some of the images. The book is split nicely into themes though, with brief text about each of the images. Mostly excellent, but occasionally disappointing September 28, 2008 The pictures were quite good, but did not include many of the best ones which I expected to be there. Also, a glaring editing error appears on page 22 - Glacier National Park is not in Arizona. If Mr. Adams took the picture from there, he was using an amazing telephoto lens. This Book Doesn't Do Adams's Work Justice April 11, 2008 5 out of 5 found this review helpful Disappointed is what I most feel about this huge (17 X 14.2 inches--224 pages) formatted coffee table book. My reaction surprises me because I'm a big fan of Ansel Adams and even attended one of the great photographer's workshops in Carmel, CA. The paper used to print this book simply didn't seem to capture the quality of an Ansel Adams black and white photograph. While the book was well laid out in six different categories--"Sky, Rock, Water, Structure, Plant and Life," unfortunately, there weren't that many really drop-dead images included in the 120 photographs taken mostly during the 1930's and 1940's. The images didn't sing. In many cases they seemed monotonous and boring. As would be expected in a book of National Park Landscapes, there weren't many photographs of people--even though a couple of the ones that included humans were among the most interesting. Perhaps the missing quality is due to the fact that most of the original negatives were lost? The books reproductions were made mostly from a set of signed exhibition prints he denoted to the Interior Department and these were later transferred to the National Achieves in Maryland. The original plan had called for many of them to be reproduced as murals. To me, the single most interesting picture in the book was the closing picture that showed Indians preparing for a dance and was entitled "Dance, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, 1938." The inclusion of that picture screamed out for more from that particular series, but alas, none were included. The picture story of the Manzanar War Relocation Center where Japanese Americans were confined after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor is historically significant but the pictures weren't all that interesting in and of themselves and Adams probably classified them as some of his "without work" meaning commercial assignments and not "within work" or his own personal creative work. Adams believed that a dozen good images was a worthwhile production for a single year. This book has about a one-year's worth of good images. I awarded the book four stars, because I love Ansel Adams and what he did to promote wilderness conservation through his photographic work. I also collect his work and he gave me a signed print while I was attending his workshop so I'm definitely prejudiced in his favor. This is a must for any serious collector of the work of Ansel Adams, but it is definitely not the best book if the collector is only going to buy the one or two best such books. So, let the buyer of this book not be disappointed. There is worthwhile material included in it, but only a few of his most famous images. Most of those icons are missing from this collection. The entire book is beautifully laid out and weighs 8.5 pounds. It's just that some of the pictures seem so trite compared to his most loved works. Fortunately the book was printed in a very large printing run to keep the unit price low so that it is not too expensive for such a Sumo-sized book of Fine Art Photographs.

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