Original Sources: Art And Archives At The Center For Creative Photography

by Ansel Adams, Beaumont Newhall (Photographer), Nancy Newhall (Photographer)

The Center for Creative Photography, located in Arizona, is home to one of the largest and most eclectic photographic collections in the world. This publication offers a virtual guided tour of the center's extensive holdings, including a visit through the archives of some of the 20th century's most important North American Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Lee Friedlander, Tina Modotti, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand. With scholarly commentary on artists' books, 19th-century travel photography, early 20th-century travel albums, and the CCP's collections of French, German, Japanese, Mexican, and Spanish photography, Original Sources is the most comprehensive introduction to one of photography's most treasured repositories.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published February 15, 2002

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...