SIGNED Ansel Adams: My Camera In The National Parks, 1950, Folio w 30 half-tone

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SIGNED Ansel Adams: My Camera In The National Parks, 1950, Folio w 30 half-tone:
$295.00

My Camera In The National Parks
Ansel Adams [SIGNED]
Book Description: Yosemite National Park: Virginia Adams with Houghton Mifflin Co., 1950; Small Folio Format (14.5\" x 12\" x .08\"; 3.8 lbs) First edition, boldly signed by Adams, featuring 30 exhibition-size half-tone plates with majestic views of the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Death Valley, Yosemite, Glacier Bay and much more, on glossy Kormekote stock, complete with Adams’ text, in original spiral-bound paper boards. Ink signed by Adams on Front End Paper (front blank flyleaf), with 30 numbered full page photographs plus interpretative text, informative material on the Parks and Monuments and photographic data for a total of 97 pages. (Note: A number of this edition was hand-signed by Adams, each in the same page location but distinct in hand-writing.) Without Scarce Dust Jacket.
Book Condition:Very Good Plus with covers mildly spotted, corners lightly worn, all pages clean and intact. Illustrations are bright with beautiful contrast.
Additional Information:“Adams photographed landscapes with razor-sharp precision and an incomparable eye for the structure and detail of his chosen subject matter… He elevated the act of photography to a religious experience” (Icons of Photography, 96). This collection of 30 magnificent vistas includes Adams’ legendary images of the Grand Canyon, Old Faithful, Mount Ranier, Mount McKinley and other natural wonders from America’s National Parks—demonstrating that “Adams attuned himself more precisely than any photographer before him to a visual understanding of the specific quality of light” (Szarkowski, 144).

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