The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging

MORGAN AND MORGAN, 1971. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER DUST JACKET FAIR-COPYRIGHT 1971--120 PAGES PUBLISHED BY MORGAN AND MORGAN ) by Ansel Adams... 120 p. The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER DUST JACKET FAIR-COPYRIGHT 1971--120 PAGES PUBLISHED BY MORGAN AND MORGAN ) by Ansel Adams This is the third book in a series done by the great The Print: Contact Printing and Enlarging (Hardcover IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER DUST JACKET FAIR-COPYRIGHT 1971--120 PAGES PUBLISHED BY MORGAN AND MORGAN ) by Ansel Adams This is the third book in a series done by the great photographer, Ansel Adams. The first was "The Camera". The second was "The Negative". In this book, Adams discusses technical information in a clear and concise manner, starting with designing and equipping a darkroom and continues through making the first print, ending with all sorts of professional tips and tricks for achieving that special image. Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and in books. With Fred Archer, Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs. Adams primarily used large-format cameras because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images. Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston. Group f/64 was a group of seven 20th-century San Francisco photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western (U.S. ) viewpoint. In part, they formed in opposition to the Pictorialist photographic style that had dominated much of the early 20th century, but moreover they wanted to promote a new Modernist aesthetic that was based on precisely exposed images of natural forms and found objects. In 1966 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1980 Jimmy Carter awarded Adams the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.