The photographs of Ansel Adams number among America''s finest artistic treasures, and are an essential part of his environmental legacy alongside his work to preserve our wild places.
In the late 1950s, Adams selected eight photographs of Yosemite National Park to offer exclusively to park visitors as affordable souvenirs. He hoped that these images might inspire tourists to become activists, by transmitting the same awe and respect for nature that Yosemite had instilled in him. Over the next decades, Adams added to this collection to create a stunning view of Yosemite in all its majesty.
This group of thirty photographs, the Yosemite Special Edition Prints, forms the core of this essential volume. These luminous images of Yosemite''s unique rock formations, waterfalls, meadows, trees, and other intimate details are among the most distinctive of Adams'' career. Today, as America''s public lands are threatened as never before, these works of art are more potent and relevant than ever.
Introduced by Pete Souza, and with an essay by Adams'' darkroom assistant Alan Ross, Ansel Adams'' Yosemite is a powerful continuation of Adams'' artistic and political legacy, and an urgently necessary statement at a perilous moment for the American earth.
