Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places

American Artists

by Eric Peter Nash

A treasury of Ansel Adam's works as commissioned by the National Park Service in 1941 features more than 120 spectacular images including the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Tetons, and other magnificent wilderness areas.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction, Reference

144 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1995

Reviews

[Lysergius · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book serves two functions, it is on one hand a record of those wild places in America that my soon disappear if the current government gets its way, and on the other a tribute to Ansel Adams as photographer. The illustrations a lavish and detailed enough to do justice to Adams original photographs, and the text explanatory and useful in setting the context for the illustrations.

It would be an interesting exercise for everyone should attempt a photograph at f64!

[Lauren Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

The quality of the photos in this book was not terrific. I'd seen many of these same photographs in other books where they were rendered in much finer quality. A disappointment for sure.

[Anita · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book to fulfil the goal read  the first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed. cheated a little on this prompt, I wrote the ten or so books on my reading list that i couldn't fit into categories down on slips of paper and pulled one out of a hat. Still, i did enjoy looking at the photographs. While i will never be and don't even care to try a nature photographer like ansel adams. i like photographing people. I did enjoy reading his story and how sometimes he just had to take the pictures he didn't like to get to the ones he did want to take.

[Tabitha · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book goes over a bit of Ansel's life and photography career. It has some beautiful pieces of photography in it. Yet, the author would go over a photograph or talk about the photographer taking a certain picture without it even being present in the book.

[Rae · Rating 3 out of 5]

Photographs and biographical text about Adams and his natural history subjects.