Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography - Hardcover

Spaulding, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520089928 ISBN 13: 9780520089921

Verlag: University of California Press, 1995

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Book by Spaulding Jonathan

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"All the signs you need to track Adams's movements through a long and varied life are here, presented with clarity and insight. . . . A splendid introduction to this full, complex, and frequently inspired life."--T. H. Watkins, "Audubon

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Working with a cumbersome 8 x 10 field camera, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created some of the most dramatic and influential photographs ever made of the American West. His majestic landscapes and evocative still lifes conveyed a vision of an idealized America that helped inspire the wilderness conservation movement. Yet despite these accomplishments, Adams has been the least studied of America's most important photographers. This biography of the artist, along with a critical analysis of his life's work, attempts to redress the balance. Refuting the myth of a solitary and carefree wilderness explorer, Spaulding portrays a man grappling with the question of how art and nature intersect in the modern world. He addresses the contradictions the photographer faced as both artist and activist: his struggle to balance art and commercialism; his desire to create art, yet enjoy bourgeois comforts; and his simultaneous support for economic development, tourism, and wilderness preservation. Spaulding places Adams's work in the context of modernism and the other major developments in 20th-century art and ideas. He examines his debt to the pioneering art photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, and his response to later artists. He traces Adams's growth as an environmental activist and discusses his use of photography to further the cause of conservation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520089928
• ISBN 13: 9780520089921
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 533