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Ansel Adams in Color Hardcover – Illustrated, October 21, 2009

by John P. Schaefer (Editor), Andrea G. Stillman (Editor), Ansel Adams (Photographer)
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Renowned as America's pre-eminent black-and-white landscape photographer, Ansel Adams began to photograph in color soon after Kodachrome film was invented in the mid 1930s. He made nearly 3,500 color photographs, a small fraction of which were published for the first time in the 1993 edition of ANSEL ADAMS IN COLOR. In this newly revised and expanded edition, 20 unpublished photographs have been added. New digital scanning and printing technologies allow a more faithful representation of Adams's color photography.
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A new book, Ansel Adams in Color, revised and expanded from the 1993 edition, [has] laser scans that might have met even his finicky standards. ―Richard B. Woodward

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In a career that spanned six decades, Ansel Adams was at once America's foremost landscape photographer and one of its most ardent environmentalists. His work has been published in a multitude of books, posters, and calendars.

Andrea G. Stillman, who worked with Adams in the 1970s, has edited several books of his photographs and writings, including Letters and Images: 1916-1984, Our National Parks, and Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs. She lives in New York City.



John P. Schaefer was a student, collaborator, and close friend of Ansel Adams, and is currently the president of Research Corporation and a Trustee of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. In 1975, as president of the University of Arizona, he helped found the Center for Creative Photography. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.




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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company; Illustrated edition (October 21, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316056413
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316056410
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.45 x 0.9 x 10.5 inches
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Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984) was the most honored American photographer of the twentieth century. Through his exhibitions and publication of his work, his writings, and his leadership in the Sierra Club, Adams was also a prescient and highly effective voice in the fight to preserve America’s remaining wilderness.

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thuggi
5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2016
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The images in this book are remarkable both for their beauty and the insight they give into the mind of a great artist. Excellent color film, most notably Kodachrome, was available pretty much from the beginning of Adam's career. He simply preferred not to use it. This was not because there is anything "special" or "magical" or "oh, so artistic" about black and white photographs. Adams considered his primary artistry to be in the darkroom making the print, with the negative just a means to that end. Transparency film in general, and especially Kodachrome, relies on getting the image correct at the moment the shutter is fired. If it is wrong at that instant nothing can be done in the darkroom to fix it.

Black and white photography has its place, but that place is not landscapes or nature. The essence of nature is color and no amount of skilled composition or talent in the darkroom can resurrect the sterile, bleak, desolate, and lifeless black and white landscapes normally associated with Adams. The images in this book leap off the page with dimensions of complexity and beauty completely lacking from Adam's typical work. The tonal rendering may seem a bit dark or retro to those used to more modern processes, but it is very faithful to Kodachrome's look.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Educativo
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024
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Un libro magnifico
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Eric from Lombard IL
4.0 out of 5 stars great photos
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023
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Also tells about Adams. I prefer color photos. Did learn to develop and print black and white as young man.
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miaolazi
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent condition! Like New!
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024
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Excellent condition.
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Bookstore Willie
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh What A Relief It Is!
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020
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Adams is best known for his magnificent black and white images but the color work displayed in this slim volumn speaks convincingly of his mastery of color as well! Mostly created in the dark ages of film based color (1940/50s) these beautifully understated color images testify to the all important skills of visual accuity and composition that have always set Ansel's work apart. No supersaturated, Photoshop enhanced images found within these covers, but rather a collection of images that maximise the power of color photography without depending entirely upon exaggerated effect to pull it off. Ansel was obviously not an advocate of the "If you can't make it good make it red!" school so painfully ascendent today. Anyone wishing to hone their color photography skills today would do well to buy and carefully study this book of stunningly beautiful color images!
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dziadeck
5.0 out of 5 stars Now we have the second edition of this excellent little (would that it were a larger size) book ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015
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Decades ago, I remember being surprised to come across a book in a library on Hawaii with fading color photographs by Ansel Adams. Shocking. Now we have the second edition of this excellent little (would that it were a larger size) book which gives background information to Ansel's forays into color. Can you *imagine* 8x10 Kodachromes? I can. He certainly did -- and did it extremely well as he did all facets of his chosen medium.

Those familiar with Ansel's monochrome work may be surprised to find a few of their polychrome equivalents. Color reproduction here is excellent. You may be tempted to frame some of these but that would mean taking the book apart.

The book is well written, very informative, nicely designed, well printed, and Ansel Adams. Who could ask for more?
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Robert E. Williams
3.0 out of 5 stars Not as impressive as his B/W photos
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2021
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Ansel Adams was a B/W purist and did not consider his color work as important or as impressive as his B/W photos. I must agree with him on this point. Admittedly, Kodachrome Technology was not as well developed as B/W and the resolution of color prints was further hampered by existing (and present) mechanical printers. Even so, the selection of subject matter for his color prints was pretty bland and did not take advantages of the benefits offered by color.
Details in the dark areas are almost non-existent and most images are overloaded in dark areas.
The book is much larger than is necessary to display the prints and the font size and color describing each print is inexcusably difficult to read.
IMHO, presentations by Galen Rowell (RIP) are much more impressive than those by Adams.
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don mackay
4.0 out of 5 stars high quality images
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2023
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needed more people photos
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LUIS-FELIPE NAVARRO TOLEDO
4.0 out of 5 stars Bello libro.
Reviewed in Spain on January 2, 2014
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El tomo está perfectamente editado, con calidad en las reproducciones, sólo un pero: si tuviera unos centímetros más sería excelente.
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wandah
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful photographs
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2013
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I bought this book for my husband who is taking his landscape photography very seriously at the moment, to give him some inspiration from the master. Another reviewer criticised the book for not digitally enhancing the colour where it is not up to today's expected saturation levels. I think it would have been a mistake to have done this. The book contains many pictures that will look instantly familiar to any fan of Ansel Adams work in black and white. Yes the colour levels are a bit low in some of the pictures, but these are very early colour pictures and quite astonishing when you consider the date they were taken and the quality of colour film available at the time. The commentary is also interesting but not extensive, this is very much a coffee table book, but truly insiping if you aspire to taking landscape pictures.
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Mr G Adams
5.0 out of 5 stars Ansel adams,
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2020
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The quality of the product is excellent very pleased, could not be better thanks,
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Mr. Gareth Williams
4.0 out of 5 stars It is good to see his colour work reproduced as he maybe ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2017
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Well produced and quality printed. It is good to see his colour work reproduced as he maybe wanted his transparencies to look. A few superb images but mostly just average. He saw tonality not colour. Porter surpasses him in this but sadly most of Porter's work is badly printed.
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ian capes
5.0 out of 5 stars And in colour too..
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2020
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Great change from the B&W masterpieces
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