| California: With Selected Writings | 
 enlarge | Author: Ansel Adams
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 952435
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0821223690
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.405
EAN: 9780821223697
ASIN: 0821223690
Publication Date: August 6, 1998
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Ansel Adams may be one of the most famous nature photographers ever, but his often- overlooked portraits of people and images of buildings and manmade landscapes are as stirring and beautiful as his inimitable wilderness photographs. This is a manageably sized volume that collects images of the state's beaches, mountains, parks, architecture and people, as well as writing--poems, essays, fiction--by authors such as John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman and Joan Didion. The combination of words and images is a visual and literary homage to California, a place that was home to and the source of inspiration for the great photographer.
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| Customer Reviews:
potentially superb book ruined by inept design September 19, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Absolutely superb reproductions of many 'new' and previously unpublished photographs .... stunning. Unfortunately the 'design' of the book is a disaster, and the potential enjoyment of this book seriously compromised. The adoption of a 'portrait' format for a collection of predominantly 'landscape' format images is perverse, and has meant that undersize images are surrounded top and/or bottom by acres of white paper, and the image generally runs off the side of the page ..... uncontained and very unbalanced. Worse still are the images that are reproduced across two pages (albeit at a very much more satisfactory size), with the crease of the spine in the image. AA had very clear views, as to how his images should be displayed, or published, and I find it difficult to imagine that this arrangement would have found favour with him. There are other issues such as the widely spaced, overstylised text, which is difficult to read, with relaxed comfort. Should there be any more AA anthologies in the pipeline - and there must be given the quantity of his work as yet unseen, then I urge that a designer be used who actually understands the impact of 'design' in use, rather than being interested in the superficial appearance, as here
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