The National Park Service photographs

The National Park Service photographs de Ansel Adams

C’était le département des Etats-Unis de l’intérieur qui a commissionné Ansel Adams documenter les parcs nationaux des états.

Bien que le projet ait été suspendu après juste un an en raison de la deuxième guerre mondiale, Ansel Adams pouvait encore créer quelques très belles photographies du paysage américain.

Arrêtant des images des geysers de Yellowstone’s, des ravins du grand Canyon’s, des “Glacier and Grand Teton national parks” ; les montagnes et les adobes antiques “de l’’American West” remplissent les pages du livre.

Ce livre est apparenté à un voyageur des monuments avec ces photographies de nature en noir et blanc en double page.

In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the United States Department of the Interior to photograph America’s national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the country’s natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was suspended after less than a year, but not before Adams had produced this group of breathtaking images, which illustrate both his early innovations and the shape of his later, legendary career as America’s foremost landscape photographer.

One of the most prolific and highly acclaimed photographers of the twentieth century, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is the author of more than a dozen books. He helped establish the department of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and founded The Friends of Photography in Carmel, California, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. A member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years, Adams was instrumental in the growth of the American conservationist movement.

The National Park Service photographs

de Ansel Adams