Author : Rose Switzer
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Boys
ISBN : 9780615374130
Children's book about a boy, a great tree, and a village, and how one small boy can make a difference in saving a village.
Author : Mary Street Alinder
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 22,13 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316437018
Discover this "evocative celebration of the life, career, friendships, concerns, and vision" of Ansel Adams, America's greatest photographer (New York Times) "No lover of Ansel Adams' photographs can afford to miss this book." - Wallace Stegner In this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist, teacher, musician, and, above all, photographer.Illustrated with eight pages of Adams' gorgeous black-and-white photographs, this book brings readers behind the images into the stories and circumstances of their creation. Written with characteristic warmth, vigor, and wit, this fascinating account brings to life the infectious enthusiasms, fervent battles, and bountiful friendships of a truly American original. "A warm, discursive, and salty document." - New Yorker
Author : David Menary
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2014-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1312248149
Stories behind some of Canada's great trees, including the petrified forests of Axel Heiberg Island in Canada's Arctic, and the petrified forests in the Bay of Fundy at Joggins, bearing trees that lived before the Atlantic Ocean was born.
Author : Anne Hammond
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300092417
Despite his significance, little scholarly attention has been paid to Adams's contributions as an artist or his place in photographic history. This handsome book addresses this gap by looking beyond his reputation as a Sierra Club environmentalist and examining in depth his life as an artist, and the complexities of his creative vision. 80 illustrations.
Author : Cindy Jenson-Elliott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627790829
"From his early days in San Francisco to the height of his glory nationwide, this book chronicles a restless boy's path to becoming an iconic nature photographer"--
Author : Ansel Adams
Publisher : Ansel Adams
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0316456144
America's greatest photographer on his greatest subject--featuring the Yosemite Special Edition Prints, a collectible collection of photographs selected by Ansel Adams during his lifetime, yet never before published in book form. The photographs of Ansel Adams are among America's finest artistic treasures, and form the basis of his tremendous legacy of environmental activism. 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 to them the same awe and respect for nature that Yosemite had instilled in him. Over the following decades, Adams added to this collection to create a stunning view of Yosemite in all its majesty. These photographs, the Yosemite Special Edition Prints, form the core of this essential volume. Adams' luminous images of Yosemite's unique rock formations, waterfalls, meadows, trees, and nature details are among the most distinctive of his career. Today, with America's public lands increasingly under threat, his creative vision remains as relevant and convincing as ever. Introduced by bestselling photographer Pete Souza, with an essay by Adams' darkroom assistant Alan Ross, Ansel Adams' Yosemite is a powerful continuation of Adams' artistic and environmental legacies, and a compelling statement during a precarious time for the American earth.
Author : Doug Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Photography
ISBN :
Award-winning photographer Dorothy Monnelly captures the yet-unspoiled beauty of one of the last natural ecosystems in the Northeast. In this collection of 57 large format, black and white photographs, the salt marsh is a solemn force rendered dramatically with crisp scans of Monnelly's original gelatin silver prints. As a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Monnelly executes her work with a familiarity and grace evocative of Ansel Adams. Her work is described in the forward by Jeanne Adams, director of the Ansel Adams Trust as capturing the marsh's "amazing sculptural quality." "Between Land and Sea" is grounded with an essay by journalist Doug Stewart, a regular contributor to "Smithsonian" and other magazines. Stewart's words provide a rich context for the images, as well as a strong case for preserving the marshlands. "Standing in an upland clearing overlooking a vast prairie of marsh grass, you can easily believe that a salt marsh is the closest thing a landscape comes to eternity. Even the Grand Canyon is eroding, after all, but a healthy salt marsh is renewed with each rising tide." Monnelly's book is indispensable to those who are conscious of the threat to our planet's sustainability. 57 black and white illustrations.
Author : Kathryn Huang
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545295297
Finally, for all free folk of air, land, and water seeking knowledge of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree; its ways, its days, its heroes known and unknown... a Guide!Studious by nature, fortunate to have been present at the most glorious moments in the tree's recent history, and above all honored to count as friends its most ardent champions, I, Otulissa, have decided to write a compendium, a catchall -a guide, in short- to the history, life, and spirit of the tree. Pause a moment before the next adventure begins to read of its natural history, its origin, and yearly changes. Read of its lesser-known heroes: of Joss, brave messenger of legends; of the brothers Ifghar and Ezylryb and the treachery that bound them; of Theo, the peaceful warrior.
Author : Julie Dunlap
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780876149447
Recounts the life and career of nature photographer Ansel Adams, whose work for the Sierra Club helped to increase public interest in wilderness preservation
Author : Ansel Adams
Publisher : Ansel Adams
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2000-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821226506
Next to Yosemite and the High Sierra, the Southwest was closest to Ansel Adams' heart. It was there, in the early 1930s, that he met photographer Paul Strand and decided to make photography his life's work. In his words, "wherever one goes in the Southwest one encounters magic, strength, and beauty." In The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, Adam's little known images of the Grand Canyon make up roughly one quarter of the photographs selected and edited by his longtime editor, Andrea Stillman. The varied images portray the balance of desolation and stark beauty in the Southwestern landscape, from Texas to California. The pictures are complemented by an introduction by Andrea Stillman and a selection of Adams' vivid letters about the region. In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz he writes, "It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite . . ."
