Format:
18 unnumbered pages, 19 leaves, 12 leaves of plates
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illustrations
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45 cm
Edition:
Facsimile edition
ISBN:
0821207229
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9780821207222
Content:
"When Taos Pueblo, his first book, was published in 1930, Ansel Adams was just 28 ... Adams had only recently put aside a nascent career as a concert pianist to pursue photography full time, but he still wasn't sure he could make a go of it when he took up the Taos project in collaboration with Mary Austin, a popular novelist and nature writer based in Santa Fe. ... The twelve photos in Taos Pueblo--each an original print on silver bromide paper prepared especially for the book by Adam's San Francisco custom-paper supplier, William Dassonville--include several formal portraits reminiscent of Edward Curtis and nearly circumscribed, almost intimate landscapes that are a far cry from the inflated magnificence associated with Adam's later work. ... The book's solid success at the height of the Depression (all 108 copies sold over two years at $75 a piece) encouraged Adams to continue in his course as a photographer of the American landscape."--The Book of 101 Books : Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century / Edited by Andrew Roth. New York : PPP Editions in association with Ruth Horowitz, 2001
Note:
First published: San Francisco, 1930; Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress
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Facsimile of copy no. 1 signed by author and by artist and published in 1930 by the Grabhorn Press
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Of this edition "DCCCCL copies of this book, text printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, photographs reproduced by George Waters, woodcut decorations by Valenti Angelo, bound by Vincent Mullins, copy number [blank]" signed by the artist
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Issued in slipcase
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I. North House (Hlauuma) -- II. South House (Hlaukwima) -- III. A man of Taos -- IV. Ruins of old church -- V. New church -- VI. Girl of Taos -- VII. North House (end view) -- VIII. South house, harvest -- IX. Old man of Taos -- X. South house, woman winnowing grain -- XI. North house, kiva, and thunder clouds -- XII. Church at Ranches de Taos
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bildband
Author information:
Adams, Ansel 1902-1984
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