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ADAMS, ANSEL; HERSEY, JOHN (COMMENTARY BY); ARMOR, JOHN, AND WRIGHT, PETER (COMPILED BY) Manzanar
New York, Times Books. 1988. (ISBN: 0812917278) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Oblong. Ill.: Adams, Ansel (Photographs by). xx, 167 pp. illus. ports.; 21 x 26 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Light shelfwear to boards. Small ink stain/lower right corner, first 3 pages, bleeding onto underside of DJ, otherwise fine. No owner's marks. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Adams' documentation of a WWII American concentration camp for citizens of Japanese origin. Manzanar was located in Inyo Co. California, and opened in March 1942. Ansel Adams (1902-1984), the Californian photographer famous for his black-and-white photographs of Yosemite and the Western landscape, was an official photographer for the Sierra Club and a co-founder (with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham) of f/64, a group of photographers who advocated purist "straight" photography from life, producing flawless prints with little or no manipulation in the darkroom. He opened the Ansel Adams Gallery in San Francisco in 1933, became a famous teacher, and published several books on the technical aspects of photography. Very Good/Very Good.
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