Ansel Adams in Color
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Ansel Adams in Color Details
From Library Journal Although he claimed he did not like color photography, Ansel Adams nonetheless produced a highly accomplished if relatively small body of color work, selections of which are gathered here. These scintillating images embody the same refined detail and delicacy of light seen in Adams's black-and-white photographs. In fact, the subtleties of light so often overwhelmed in color photography are clearly evident here. Characterized by restrained, at times understated hues, the photographs are consistently remarkable. They have been ably selected and arranged by editor Callahan and are further enhanced by an informative introduction by James L. Enyeart. This beautifully designed and printed work, which is well worth its price, should be considered a standard title in all public and academic library collections. Highly recommended.- Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, Ill.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more From Booklist Adams died in 1984, still planning a book on color photography, a topic that he had wrestled with since the 1950s and that gave him profound discomfort. He allowed that were he a young photographer in the 1980s, he'd work in color, yet in the last letter quoted herein he confessed, "I don't like photographic color. . . . It is not my dish of tea!" In other remarks, he was more analytic about color's challenges. Mostly, he regretted lack of control over intensity and hue, which afforded him no way to transform color as he transformed and exaggerated tonal values in black-and-white. For Adams, black-and-white was an abstract medium and color was inseparable from banal realism. He also sensed in himself a lack of "color imagination," the quality that distinguished the work of his colleague and friend Eliot Porter. He was right, yet he produced 3,000 color transparencies, most as tests for Kodak or for 1940s and 1950s commercial jobs. Eminent color photographer Harry Callahan culled 59 landscapes from this work for this album, which thoroughgoing photography collections will want in order to document Adams' beliefs about color photography and as testimony to the problems color has presented as a creative medium. Gretchen Garner Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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Reviews
Ansel Adams is best known for his iconic black and white photography, but what he shot in color is just as stunning. In particular, the work he did in Yellowstone Natural Park is amazing. I have a litho of one of these photos ("Pool Detail", pg 70), and this book was helpful in finding other work I want to display. It's printed on clay-covered paper, giving each page a premium feel and showing crisp detail. This is essential reading for the Ansel Adams fan, and a great book for your coffee table.
