Product Description

Ansel Adams's sublime photographs of trees are the subject of this beautiful and elegant homage to the most graceful form in nature. 50 tritone photos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #315986 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 104 pages

About the Author
In a career that spanned five decades, Ansel Adams was at once America's foremost landscape photographer and one of its most ardent environmentalists.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Pictures, Insightful Text, Impeccable Printing
I really, really don't understand how a person can see so much out of so little. There's a tree right outside my window. It looks like a tree, seen one seen all of them. But Ansel Adams didn't just see a tree.

Sure he saw a tree. But he also saw its shape, the texture of its bark, it's setting, perhaps the brook flowing by, or the mist or the clouds, maybe the mountain in the background. And the timing. This picture has the sun directly behind the trunk of the tree so it's almost just an outline. That picture was taken at dawn so the light would be just so, and the mist not quite gone. This grove of trees are all tall and straight, that single Jeffrey Pine growing out of the rocks in Yosemite is twisted and deformed by the wind.

You know what to expect of an Ansel Adams book. Black and White photographs carefully selected, merged with insightful text, printed (in Germany) with impeccable quality -- What more can I say.

Great Book
This is a beautiful book. Great coffee table item. It is a gift for someone else, otherwise I would consider cutting it up and framing the images.

On a side note, I ordered from Amazon (not a seller on Amazon, Amazon itself) and it took FOREVER to get and the cover was creased. Blah!

Trees
Photographs show great composition. From a stand of pines to a stark leafless oak these photos preserve the visage of trees in every form and season.