This is a very special Ansel Adams book with a limited availability. It contains 44 photographs of an ecological/ environmental nature by Ansel Adams as well as work by Eliot Porter, Philip Hyde, Edward Weston and Margaret Bourke-White.

"A poignantly beautiful variation of the theme in This Is the American Earth appears in this book by a man who was a musician, a poet, a photographer—and also a man who could see more than beauty in the mountains he loved" — from the fly-leaf 93 pages of black and white photographs Cedric Wright

Selections from Thoreau's writings highlight a collection of color photographs capturing the beauty and diversity of the wilderness

Poetry and prose combine with color photographs to record the beauty of this region before it was closed for a reservoir

Photographs by James Rose, et al. Introduction by Edgar and Peggy Wayburn

Fore more than sixty years, since making his photographs of Yosemite Valley, Ansel Adams has sought to capture 'the instant of revelation - of timelessness' The landscapes for which he is best known are as eloquent in their use of texture, form and light as nature itself. His world is one of forests and of rivers running like quicksilver, of distant waterfalls and of rocky domes and spires that rise through mist or swirling snows or bask in brilliant light. In this solitary world, every element of nature is rendered with intense clarity. 'The Eloquent Light', originally published by The Sierra Club in 1963, traces Adam's life and career from 1902 and 1938, his formative years. Nancy Newhall drew on the letters and words of Adams, his family, and his colleagues to create this book. Newhall herself was a close friend who, as she put it, ' in the course of 20 ears, crawled under Adams' focusing cloth almost a thousand times.' Her close association with Adams makes her book more t

OUR COPY HAS A DUST JACKET THAT IS IN WELL USED, BUT ACCEPTABLE CONDITION-WITH LOTS OF SCUFFING AND CREASING. ACTUAL BOOK HAS BLUE COVERS AND SPINE WITH GOLD LETTERING. IT IS A PART OF THE SIERRA CLUB EXHIBIT FORMAT SERIES, DATED 1964. PAGES AND BINDING INTACT, BUT PAPER IS BEGINNING TO SEPARATE BETWEEN INSIDE OF FRONT COVER AND FIRST PAGE. PAGES CLEAN AND WITHOUT MARKING.MILD MUSTY ODOR. NAME WRITTEN INSIDE FRONT COVER.

Nearly a century after John Muir's personal account of the Sierra Nevada, Richard Kauffman has come along with a color camera to recapture the feeling of discovery and the vividness in what Muir called the Range of Light.

Photography, Art, American Studies, Americana