Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail
by ADAMS Ansel
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
1938. First Edition . ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. Berkeley: Archetype, 1938. Large folio (13 by 17 inches), original ivory cloth. $12,500.Signed limited first edition, number 66 of only 500 copies signed by Adams, who ""realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry,"" featuring 50 luminous mounted halftone prints including ""Half Dome.""To Ansel Adams, the open vistas of the American West were ""an event, an ephemeral, continuing drama. The protagonist of the drama is the light."" Adams photographed these ""snow-capped peaks and gemlike mountain lakes
so persuasively that it has seemed to most younger photographers of ambition that that book has been closed"" (Szarkowski, American Landscapes, 13-14). In the luminous images of Sierra Nevada, this superlative landscape photographer affirms his renown for elevating ""the act of photography to a religious experience. He realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry: the uniqueness of American landscape and nature"" (Icons of Photography, 96). Commissioned by a president of the Sierra Club to assemble a book of photographs in tribute to his son, who died in a climbing accident, Adams created this outstanding volume, whose striking halftones set a new high standard for photobooks. Included is ""Half Dome,"" widely considered his first masterpiece and ""one of Adams' most famous mountain subjects"" (New York Times). In these images Adams created a timeless vision ""of the Sierra Nevadathe revelation of the beauty of wide horizons and the tender perfection of detail"" (Foreword). Each separately mounted halftone print measures nine by seven inches. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. See Open Book, 88; Roth, 58. Plates clean and fine; text block expertly repaired, expert restoration and repairs to original cloth. An extremely good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Bauman Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125215
- Title
- Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail
- Author
- ADAMS Ansel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1938
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