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Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs | 
| Author: Ansel Adams
Creator: Andrea G. Stillman
Publisher: Ansel Adams
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 7886
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0316117722
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780316117722
ASIN: 0316117722
Publication Date: October 29, 2007
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Product Description
ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS presents the full spectrum Adams' greatest work in a single volume for the first time, offering an entirely new perspective on his monumental career..
The photographs are arranged chronologically into five major periods in order to convey Adams' development as an artist-from his first photographs made in Yosemite and the High Sierra in 1916 to his work in the National Parks in the 1940s up to his last important photographs from the 1960s. An introduction and brief essays on selected images provide information about Adams' life, document the evolution of his technique, and give voice to his artistic vision.
Few artists of any era can claim to have produced four hundred images of lasting beauty and significance. It is a testament to Adams' vision and a lifetime of hard work that a book of this scale can be justified. ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS is a must-have reference and gift book for anyone who appreciates photography and the allure of the natural world.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 Amazing B&W photos January 6, 2009
Paulo Nicolau (Lisboa, Portugal)
Amazing Book with amazing photos, a must for all photographers.
This book made me think a lot about photography, due to the high quality black and white photography inside, such a great photographer Ansel Adams, with loads of feeling that seems so rare these days...
 Ansel Adams 400 Photographs January 6, 2009
Robert D. Barbee (Bozeman, Montana)
The book offers a suburb evolution of a great artist and photographer. The book is well designed and the layout offers representive images from Ansel's teenage years through his life. The narritive is minimal but a fine complement to his photographs. Bob Barbee, Bozeman, Mt.
Best Inexpensive Collection of Ansel Adams in a Too Small Size December 29, 2008
Donald Mitchell (Boston)
Anyone who has been the places that Ansel Adams photographed knows that the horizons he so often captured seem to go all the way to heaven. While in the early days of photography it was difficult to reproduce large images in books, today there is no problem except for publishers assuming that buyers prefer saving money over having the images be of the right size to express their emotional majesty. I will say that the overall reproduction quality is quite good. Not too much is lost in terms of detail from the smaller size of the images, but the emotional impact is clearly lessened. You feel like you are looking at an image rather than imagining yourself in the scene.
That flaw aside, Ms. Andrea Stillman successfully draws on her close contact (pun intended) with Ansel Adams to select excellent examples of his finest and most interesting work. For those who depend on icons to guide the way, she's included lots of those.
Although the book doesn't have much writing in it, I appreciated the notes beginning on page 413 that explained the context of the photographs, methods used, and personal stories related to their taking and exhibition. I think you will, too.
The book is conveniently organized chronologically with facing pages wisely selected to bring out common and contrasting elements in his work.
I especially enjoyed seeing works of his that I hadn't seen before. From this entire collection, I also gained many perspectives on his compositional style and how that evolved over time to be more awe-inspiring.
Nice job!
Amazing photographs November 23, 2008
Tor Berg (Norway)
This is a book full of amazing photographs by Ansel Adams. Every time I pick up this book I find new details in his pictures. The tonal range in his work just blows you away.
Inspiration September 10, 2008
Marcio Janousek (SP- Brasil)
Tireless book full of images of this wonderful photographer to look unique.
Size good, brings good idea to shoot the nature.
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