Ansel Adams at 100 - Couverture rigide

Szarkowski, John; Adams, Ansel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0821225154 ISBN 13 : 9780821225158

Editeur : Ansel Adams, 2002

Synopsis

Ansel Adams at 100 In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, "Ansel Adams at 100" presents an intriguing new look at this distinguished photographer's work. The legendary curator John Szarkowski, director emeritus of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art, has painstakingly selected what he considers Adams' finest work and has attempted to find the single best photographic print of each. Szarkowski writes that "Ansel Adams at 100 is the product of a thorough review of work that Adams, at various times in his career, considered important. It includes many photographs that will be unfamiliar to lovers of Adams' work, and a substan...

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"A book that's also art."

―The New York Times

"Long after the museum tour of Ansel Adams at 100 ends, this book will endure as a vital document of his vast contribution to the art of landscape."

―San Diego Union Tribune

"[Szarkowski's] incisive biographical essay and reproductions worthy of Adams' exacting standards make [the book] a fitting monument to an American visionary."

―Artnews

"[Adams] probably did as much as any artist of the 20th century to shape the American psyche, to change our perception of the world...These pictures strive for classical purity, order, and finality."

―Washington Post

Biographie de l'auteur :

In a career that spanned more than five decades, Ansel Adams was at once America's foremost landscape photographer and one of its most ardent environmentalists.

John Szarkowski, is Director Emeritus of the Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. His book of photographs of the buildings of Louis Sullivan was recently reissued by Bulfinch Press. Szarkowski lives in East Chatham, NY, and New York City.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ansel Adams
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0821225154
• ISBN 13: 9780821225158
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192