Iconic photographer, conservationist, and environmentalist, the revered Ansel Adams was a giant of the 20th century. Adams spent much of his career documenting the natural beauty of the world, particularly the American West, where Yosemite National Park became something of a muse. First visiting the park in 1919, aged 14, Adams would go on to spend a great deal of time in Yosemite, celebrating its beauty with his inimitable black and white photographs. These photographs, that feature Yosemite’s great waterfalls, bucolic plains, majestic trees, and famous peaks like El Capitan, have been collected in a new book, ordered and arranged before the photographer’s death in 1984.
A love letter to Yosemite and a study of a photographer’s affection for his muse, the new book entitled Ansel Adams’ Yosemite is on sale now and features a foreword by White House photographer Pete Souza.
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