"对美国最**的摄影师之一的早期职业生涯的一次前所未有，令人大开眼界的探讨。

安塞尔•亚当斯（Ansel Adams，1902-1984年）是他这一代最有影响力的摄影师之一，以他拍摄的戏剧性的美国西部的照片而闻名。尽管亚当斯的许多照片现在很有名，但他的早期作品大部分仍然鲜为人知。在这本专门讲述亚当斯职业生涯的开端的**本专著中，Rebecca A. Senf指出，这些早期照片对于理解亚当斯的艺术发展至关重要，并提供了关于这位艺术家成熟作品的许多方面的新见解。Senf利用丰富的档案研究成果，追溯了亚当斯前三十年的摄影实践——从他幼年时期制作的一张业余相册开始，以20世纪40年代在古根海姆的支持下为他国家公园拍摄的作品为止。这本插图精美的书籍强调了这位艺术家在开拓职业道路上的执着精神以及他在提高自己的图像制作技能的过程中非凡的从经验中学习的能力，同时还论述了这位艺术家的环保主义的重要性，包括他参与Sierra俱乐部。

An unprecedented and eye-opening examination of the early career of one of America's most celebrated photographers.

One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is famous for his dramatic photographs of the American West. Although many of Adams's images are now iconic, his early work has remained largely unknown. In this first monograph dedicated to the beginnings of Adams's career, Rebecca A. Senf argues that these early photographs are crucial to understanding Adams's artistic development and offer new insights into many aspects of the artist's mature oeuvre. Drawing on copious archival research, Senf traces the first three decades of Adams's photographic practice-beginning with an amateur album made during his childhood and culminating with his Guggenheim-supported National Parks photography of the 1940s. Highlighting the artist's persistence in forging a career path and his remarkable ability to learn from experience as he sharpened his image-making skills, this beautifully illustrated volume also looks at the significance of the artist's environmentalism, including his involvement with the Sierra Club.

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