Unseen Ansel Adams

Author: Introduction by Jason Weems
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press

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Ansel Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was a famous American photographer who specialised in black and white nature photography. Although he was a very good portrait photographer it’s his landscape work he’s best known for. This concentrated on the American West, particularly Yosemite National Park.

Adams founded the F.64 club with 6 other San Francisco photographers. The aims of the club were to produce precisely exposed work which was technically accurate and high contrast. This went against the grain at the time where the trend was to take a more pictorial approach.

Adams’s work is now taught in photography schools all over the world and has come to symbolise beautiful, landscapes where little work was carried out in the dark room.

In 1963 The University of California approached Adams to produce a photographic book to celebrate the university’s centennial. The book was to be called Fiat Lux which means “let there be light’. This was the motto of the university, and could easily have been Adams’s own motto.

Adams obviously produced a huge body of work between 1963 and the books publication in 1968. All of which could not have been included in Fiat Lux. Unseen Ansel Adams showcases the works that were not included in the original book.

This obviously isn’t a book you can sit down and read. But for anyone interested in photography you’ll find yourself picking it up time and again.

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