This book is the largest compilation of Adams' photographic oeuvre ever published. Organized chronologically, it presents the full range of his finest work, from early efforts in the 1920s,to his projects in the national parks in the 194os, up through his last important photographs of the 1960s.

In a career that spanned six decades, Ansel Adams produced a remarkable body of work that is at once an artistic tour de force and a powerful tribute to his beloved American wilderness. Adams was given his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie,in 1916, and made his first photographs during a family vacation in Yosemite National Park. Thus began a career and a lifetime devoted to making indelible images of America's wild places,its national parks, and its great mountain ranges.

This book is the largest compilation of Adams' photographic oeuvre ever published. Organized chronologically, it presents the full range of his finest work, from early efforts in the 1920s,to his projects in the national parks in the 194os, up through his last important photographs of the 1960s. Included are Adamsmost popular images--many of them icons of twentieth-cen-tury art--as well as a number of masterly but little-known photographs.

Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs offers an unprecedented survey of his development as an artist, of the themes and subjects that animate his work, and of the evolution of a style that is uniquely that of Ansel Adams -- America's best-known and best-loved photographer.

Introduction: The Long View

1916-1930 Yosemite and the High Sierra

1931-1939 Group f164 and Alfred Stieglitz

1940-1949 National Parks and Monuments

19S0-1959 Conservation, Publications, and Commissions

1960-1968 Carmel

Notes on Selected Photographs

Afterword

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Title Index

SubJect Index

Credits