Ansel Adams and the American landscape
Subtitle: a biography
By: Jonathan Spaulding.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Adams, Ansel, 1902-; Photographers -- United States -- Biography
Description: Drawing on a vast array of correspondence, interviews, and published and unpublished works, Spaulding illuminates Adams's place in modern art and the environmental movement. He explores the photographer's early influences - the tensions in Adams's once-wealthy family, his adventures in the Sierra Nevada, and his participation in the art colonies of California and New Mexico.

His friendships with leading artists, including Dorothea Lange, Georgia O'Keefe, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston, fostered an exploration of issues such as modernism, photography as art, and the social responsibility of artists and individuals. In his thirty-seven years as a director of the Sierra Club, he helped the environmental movement grow from a small band of activists to a force of international prominence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-498) and index.