“HIS LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE”: ELOQUENT LIGHT, SIGNED BY ANSEL ADAMS
ADAMS, Ansel and NEWHALL, Nancy. The Eloquent Light. San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1980). Folio, original light green cloth, original dust jacket.
Second edition, signed by Adams on the half title, with Nancy Newhall’s authoritative biographical text, 86 striking black-and-white photogravures (many double-page), in original dust jacket.
This outstanding photobook, covering Ansel Adams' work from 1902-38, asserts his prominence as a photographer who knew that "the natural landscape is not a fixed and solid sculpture, but an insubstantial image, as transient as the light that continually redefines it. This sensibility to the specificity of light was the motive that forced Adams to develop his legendary photographic technique… for Adams, nothing less would suffice" (Szarkowski, 144). Text by Nancy Newhall. First issued in 1963.
A fine signed copy.