**America's greatest photographer on his greatest subject--featuring the
Yosemite Special Edition Prints, a collectible collection of photographs
selected by Ansel Adams during his lifetime, yet never before published
in book form.
**The photographs of Ansel Adams are among America's finest artistic
treasures, and form the basis of his tremendous legacy of environmental
activism.
In the late 1950s, Adams selected eight photographs of Yosemite National
Park to offer exclusively to park visitors as affordable souvenirs. He
hoped that these images might inspire tourists to become activists by
transmitting to them the same awe and respect for nature that Yosemite
had instilled in him. Over the following decades, Adams added to this
collection to create a stunning view of Yosemite in all its majesty.
These photographs, the Yosemite Special Edition Prints, form the core of
this essential volume. Adams' luminous images of Yosemite's unique rock
formations, waterfalls, meadows, trees, and nature details are among the
most distinctive of his career. Today, with America's public lands
increasingly under threat, his creative vision remains as relevant and
convincing as ever.
Introduced by bestselling photographer Pete Souza, with an essay by
Adams' darkroom assistant Alan Ross, Ansel Adams' Yosemite is a
powerful continuation of Adams' artistic and environmental legacies, and
a compelling statement during a precarious time for the American earth.
