This is the American Earth

Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series #1

by Ansel Adams, Nancy Newhall

This is a very special Ansel Adams book with a limited availability. It contains 44 photographs of an ecological/ environmental nature by Ansel Adams as well as work by Eliot Porter, Philip Hyde, Edward Weston and Margaret Bourke-White.

Genres: Photography, Art, Nature, Poetry, Environment, Nonfiction

150 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

People note black-and-white photographs of the American wilderness of American photographer Ansel Easton Adams.

Though wilderness and the environment were his grand passions, photography was his calling, his metier, his raison d'etre.

From: Ansel Adams, Photographer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_A...

Reviews

[Cindi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I opened this book expecting it to be just photos and captions. It was that, plus more. It was the story of the earth from creation to the present. How we have used the earth, expanded, exploited the earth, and where the hope lies for the future. The text was almost poetical and with the photos alongside, I thought it was an amazing message. Besides prints of Ansel Adams on Dr. office walls, I haven't seen his work. Amazing stuff. Makes me want to try black and white photography myself. I don't know if I have it in me!

[Regine · Rating 5 out of 5]

With eon-spanning, mythology-invoking apocalyptic verse, Nancy Newhall calls for the spirit of man to perceive and preserve the earth of our origin. And with the starkly clarifying photographs of Ansel Adams and others, we see what is at stake. The emphases have changed since 1960, and our awareness has modulated, but the call to action is still stirring.

[Raina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extraordinary. Both the poetry and the photography. The photos sing like poetry and the poem paints fantastic scenery.

[Jonathan · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book does not hold up with time, given its clearly colonial and ethnocentric viewpoints.

[Jan C · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was pretty interesting.

How Perry stays out of jail on this case is one puzzle after another. But he is in prime form here. And Paul keeps saying "I don't think we ought to do that. We need to go slow here." But Perry just keeps plowing ahead.

There are a lot of characters and it is tough to keep the characters straight without a program. Good thing we have one.

I guess all of the clues are there. Unfortunately, I only picked up on some of them.