Includes bibliographical references (page 145) and index.

"This is an enthusiastic survey of Ansel Adams' varied career--from commercial photographer to avant-garde modernist and finally standard-bearer of pure photography. His well-known photographs of America's national parks--featured in this volume--are remarkable for their timeless celebration of the nation's unblemished landscape. Ansel Adams was an artist and conservationist, a visionary and pragmatist. The extraordinary work of Ansel Adams--artist and conservationist, visionary and pragmatist--is a permanent record of America's wild beauty achieved by a man whose own nature was as immutable as the earth he loved"--Amazon.com.