Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail. Berkeley; The Archetype Press 1939. 12 1/2" x 16 3/4". cloth bound. 500 numbered and signed copies. 49 plates.
Taos Pueblo originally published 1930, with a facsimile reprint in 1977.
Yosemite. Tales and Trails. Katherine Ames Taylor and Ansel Adams. San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1934
Taylor wrote the text, and the pictures are by Adams.
A Pageant of Photography (edited by AA) San Francisco; Crocker-Union 1940. 48 pages, 11 1/2" x 14 1/2". Deluxe binding and paper binding.
Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (by Virginia and Ansel Adams) San Francisco; Crocker-Union 1940. 130 pages, 5 1/2" x 8". plastic binding.
Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada (text by John Muir, edited by Charlotte E. Mauk) Boston; Houghton Mifflin, December 1948. 132 pg., 64 photographs.
Yosemite Valley (by Ansel Adams, ed. by Nancy Newall) San Francisco; 5 Associates 1959. 64 pages, 9" x 12". 45 plates, paperbound.
Making A Photograph The Studio Limited1934 first edition, 4th edition with foreword by Edward Weston 1949
The Four Seasons (book about Yosemite) Edited by Stanley Plumb, photographed by AA. dust jacket. Copyright 1936 Yosemite Park and Curry Co. Fourth Edition 1940
Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail 1939
A Pageant of Photography 1940
Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley 1940
Michael and Anne in the Yosemite Valley 1941
Exposure Record 1948
Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada 1948
Camera and Lens 1948
The Negative 1948
The Print 1950
Natural Light Photography 1952
My Camera in the National Parks 1951
Austin, Mary; The Land of Little Rain 1951
This Is The American Earth 1960
Yosemite and the Range of Life. Time Life Books 1980 signed edition
Singular Images New York Graphic Society 1981
Magazine Articles and Anthology articles authored by AA
1931: Ski Experience Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1931. photos by Adams
1934: An Exposition of My Photographic Technique Camera Craft, April 1934, pg. 173-183, 5 illus.
1936: My First Ten Weeks With A Contax Camera Craft, January 1936, pg. 14-20, 5 illus.
1938: Miniature Camera Work 1938 (chapter by Adams "The Expanding Photographic Universe")
1951: The Leica Manual (chapter 8 by AA) "Enlarging Papers and Printing" The Leica Manual, 12th edition, (revised and re-set) January 1951.
1940: The Pageant of Photography (article describing the exhibit at the Golden Gate International Exposition) Camera Craft, September 1940, pg. 437-446. 7 illus.
1944: American Annual of Photography. Vol. 58
1948: Graphic Graflex Photography First edition 1940, Revised edition (entirely new Adams text and photos) 1944, Eighth Edition (entirely new Adams text and photos) 1948:
1946: Vittorio Sella: His Photography Sierra Club Bulletin, December, 1946.
1949: S. E. I. Exposure Meter U. S. Camera, May 1949, pg. 56-59, 100. see also a letter to the editor by AA in U S Camera July 1949 pg. 8.
1950: My Camera In the Yosemite Valley Modern Photography, January 1950, pg. 44-49, 6 illus.
1950: How Ansel Adams Makes A Print (excerpts from The Print) Modern Photography, June 1950, pg. 36-41, 56-57, many illus. plus portrait of AA.
1951: How I Use the Polaroid Camera Modern Photography, September 1951, pg. 36-39, 80, 82.
1952: Pirkle Jones, Photographer U. S. Camera, October 1952, pg. 40-42, 75. ca. 1956??? article or column for U. S. Camera on Polaroid.
1954: How to make Cold Photographs article, an article compiling anecdotes from five well-known photographers U S Camera, December 1954, pg. 72 with photo of "Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley". (This is the funniest AA story that I have ever heard.)
1958: Color Photography as a Creative Medium Image, (George Eastman House) November 1957. pg.212-217.
1961: An Approach to Exposure U S Camera, August 1961, pg. 64-66. 4 photos.
1963: The Story of a Winery (authored by AA, Pirkle Jones and Elsa Gidlow) U S Camera Annual 1963, pg. 40 - 51.
1963-6? Wilderness: America’s Living Heritage Brower, David (editor.) San Francisco: Sierra Club
1966: T. H. O'Sullivan, Photographer (by Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, with appreciation by Ansel Adams) New York; George Eastman House 1966 (AA wrote 2 pages)
1967: Ansel Adams (concerning color photography) Popular Photography, July 1967, pg. 82-83. 2 color illus.
1969: Travel & Camera. August 1969.
1970: (possibly) Infinity July or August 1970.
1979: "Half Dome in Yosemite" by AA. Sierra Club Bulletin, May/June 1979, 10 page article & 8 pages of photos from “Yosemite and the Range of Light” which was to be published the following September.
1974: Change Relates (Presumably) To Progress Untitled 7/8, 1974.
Letters to the Editor authored by Adams.
1931: review of Edward Weston exhibition The Fortnightly (San Francisco), 4 December 1931, pg. 25.
1934: "Pure Photography" (letter to the editor) Camera Craft, June 1934, pg. 297-298.
1939: (letter to the editor) Minicam February 1939 pg. 4, 6.
1940: "What is Good Photography" (letter to the editor) Camera Craft, January 1940, pg. 43-44.
1940: "The Pageant of Photography" (letter to the editor) Camera Craft, July 1940 pg. 364.
1940: "Photo Murals" by Ansel Adams. US Camera No. 12, Autumn 1940
1944: On the Photography of Joseph LeConte by Ansel Adams Sierra Club Bulletin October 1944
1946: "Good For Cedric" (letter to the editor) concerns recent article by Cedric Wright> Minicam March 1946 pg. 8.
1958: letter to the editor referring to Edward Weston article. U S Camera, July 1958, pg. 6.
1959: "Mr. Adams on Photography" (letter to the editor) Modern Photography, June 1959, pg. 14.
1959: letter to the editor by AA criticizing the Photography In The Fine Arts Show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Modern Photography, November 1959, pg. 18, 20.
1968: "Ansel Adams on his Portfolios" Photographic Business and Product News, February 1968, pg. 34, 35.
1979: Time Magazine 3 September 1979. (cover story)
1981: (letter to the editor concerning environmental politics) San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California), 3 May 1981. (text reprinted in Letters pg. 366-368)
1982: (letter to editor correcting recent article) Popular Photography, February 1982, pg. 6.
1982 (letter to the editor clarifying a previous article) Camera Arts May/June 1982.
1984: letter published Sierra. July/August 1984 pg. 32.
Major Articles About Ansel Adams
article in San Francisco Chronicle April 14, 1935
1946: Willis, Gordon. Photography On The Air Minicam August 1946 pg. 42- 54, 140-141 (photos of Adams, quotations.)
1946: The Man From Yosemite Minicam October 1946, pg. 30-42.
1952: article on Grand Canyon Arizona Highways June 1952
1955: Interview With Three GreatsUS Camera August 1955 pg. 84. (photos & interview Lange, Adams, Cunningham)
1957: article about Ansel Adams 1957 Photography Annual
1961: Weiss, Margot; What Ansel Adams Teaches Popular Photography, November, 1961, pg. 62-64, 86-91. 6 photos of AA.
1964: (how AA makes scenics) Modern Photography, April 1964,
1967: Vestal, David; David in Adamsland Popular Photography, December, 1967, pg. 90-101, 141-143. 13 photos.
1969: Hollis, Marvin: Ansel Adams: A Pacific Portfolio Travel & Camera August 1969, pg. 66-71.
1969: Newhall, Nancy Ansel Adams, Brilliant Recorder of Nature's Significance Modern Photography, September 1969, pg. 66-71, 108, 112.
1973: Schreiber, Norman; The First 50 Years Camera 35, May 1973, pg. 56-57. (interview with AA)
1979: "The Master's Eye" Time Magazine, September 3, 1979 cover story
1980: Stensvoid, Mike and Dale, Duchess Ansel Adams Photographic, August 1980, pg. 39-47. (interview)
1981: interview. Camera Arts Sept/Oct 1981. Plus a follow-up letter to the editor by AA May/June 1982.
1983: (1936 Portfolio) Travel & Camera, August 1983.
1984: profile of Ansel Adams by Wallace Stegner Arizona Highways January 1984
1984: A Vision as Majestic as Yosemite Newsweek, 7 May 1984, pg. 106-107.
1984: Pacific Northwest October 1984
1984: Brower, David A Tribute to Ansel AdamsSierra, July/August 1984, pg. 32-35.
1994: Sinnot, Roger W.; "Astronomical Computing: Dating Ansel Adams' Moonrise" (astronomical computations to determine exact date of exposure of Adams' Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico) Sky and Telescope, November 1991; pg 529-533, also related article pg. 480.
1989: Parachini, Allan; Court case examines book featuring some of Ansel Adams works (syndicated newspaper item from LA Times - Washington Post news service) Oregonian 6 August 1989 pg. E7.
1994: Sinnot, Roger W.; "Dating Ansel Adams' Moon and Half Dome" (astronomical computations to determine exact date of exposure of Adams' Moon and Half Dome) Sky and Telescope, December 1994, pg 82-86.
1997: "Seeing Nature With An Inner Eye" International Wildlife v27 S/O 1997 pg. 50
1998: Bentkowski, T. "Speaking of Pictures" Life May 1998 pg. 28+
2002: Celebrating 100 years of Ansel Adams Sierra January 2002
News Items and Minor Communications
1934: AA photos in Camera, October 1934
1935 AA discusses the mountain that later would be named after him. Sierra Club Bulletin 20, No. 1, February 1935
1936: AA photos on display during October 1935 at California Camera. American Photography, January 1936. pg. 60, col. 2.
1940: AA is speaker at Western Amateur Camera Conclave. His topic is "Artistic and Technical Problems of the Photo Mural. Lecture was at 9:30 to 10:15 AM. on 26 July 1940 at the Hotel Leamington in Oakland CA. Camera Craft, June 1940, pg. 294, pg. 295; July 1940 pg. 363. review and two candid photos of AA at show in Camera Craft, September 1940, pg. 472-473. Also mentioned in The Camera, October 1940, pg. 86.
1940: announcement of upcoming "Pageant of Photography" exhibit, directed by AA. Camera Craft, June 1940.
1940: report that AA was a speaker and print critic at meeting of Fort Dearborn Camera Club. American Photography, July 1940, pg. 541, col. 2.
1940: notice of U. S. Camera Yosemite Photographic Forum, under the personal direction of AA. U. S. Camera, No. 9, May 1940, Camera Craft, June 1940, pg. 310. class will repeat in September 1940, and be under the personal direction of AA and Edward Weston. Camera Craft, September 1940 pg. 477.
1941: report that AA gave a lecture at the Photo League (probably NY) in the preceding November. American Photography, January 1941, pg. 72.
1941: report that AA was a guest of honor, with Alfred Stieglitz, at opening of new building of Clarence White School of Photography in NY on 13 November 1940. American Photography, January 1941, pg. 79, col. 1.
1941: report that AA was named vice-chairman of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. American Photography, February 1941, pg. 154, col. 1, and March 1941, pg. 234, col. 1.
1941: Photo in Invitational Exhibit, Second Annual Western Amateur Camera Conclave. "Adobe Church, New Mexico. Ansel Adams" Camera Craft, August 1941, pg. 436. 1 photo.
1941: notice that AA visited Detroit from August 22 to September 1 and gave lectures and demonstrations organized by the Miniature Camera Club of Detroit. One of AA lectures was at the Art Institute. American Photography, November 1941, pg. 803, col. 2.
1944: AA listed as judge at Chicago Salon, 13-14 May 1944. "... This was Mr. Adams first heat as a judge for some five years and he brought a fresh eye to all the prints ..." Minicam Photography, June 1944, pg. 91-93.
1946: article with photos and text Arizona Highways, May 1946
1948: report on Hawaii trip. Minicam August 1948 pg. 136.
1949: AA is judge at 10th annual newspaper national snapshot awards. American Photography, February 1949, pg. 87, col. 2.
1950: The 1949 PSA Honors List, fellowship to AA, for outstanding achievement in Pictorial Photography and teaching. PSA Journal, 1950 Annual, pg. 711.
"Death Valley" Arizona Highways Oct. 1953. 20 pages & inside back cover, 16 black & white photos. Text by Nancy Newall.
1955: photo of Cathedral Park by AA. Polaroid advertisement. Modern Photography May 1955 pg. 52-53.
1955: "Close Up On Nature", reviewing This is the American Earth exhibit organized and printed by AA. Modern Photography, November 1955, pg. 87-89, 124.
1958: "Challenge: The River" (amateur photography contest, with winning submissions compared to AA, who was hired to take a river picture) Popular Photography, February 1958. (announcement of challenge in December 1957 issue, pg. 145)
1958: White, Minor: "Ansel Adams: Musician to Photographer" Image, (George Eastman House) February 1957. pg. 28-35.
1961: AA is named the recipient of the Stuyvesant Peabody award of the Photographic Society of America. The Professional Photographer, December 1961, pg. 24.
1970: report of AA' speech to American Inst. of Architects. AIA Journal.
1974 article on Ansel Adams' one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo World, May 1974, Volume 2, Number 5, 12 pages, 8 photos.
1979: "Ansel Adams & The West; His Major Retrospective Comes Home" Focus Magazine, December 1979, 7 pages & cover
1980: AA interviewed by Jim Hughes. Popular Photography, January 1980, pg. 30, 154, 155.
1981: Moonrise photo dated by computer analysis of moon azimuth tables. American Photographer, November 1981, pg. 30-31.
1981: AA fight with James Watt. People Magazine, June 1, 1981, 6 pages
1981: Saturday Review, January 1981, pg. 32-34, 39.
1983: report of AA' meeting with president Regan to discuss environmental issues. Washington Post (Washington, D. C.), 3 July 1983, pg. 1.
Photographs by AA Published in Books and Magazine Articles
(?) 1939: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. article in Fortune, September 1939.
1941: "Landscape - Arizona" photo published in U S Camera Annual 1941 Vol. 2. New York; Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1941. pg. 80-81, data on pg. 116.
(?) 1943: Fortune (according to letters pg. 143)
1943: photo published in Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1943 edition, plate II opposite pg. 797 of "Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts by Ansel Adams".
(?) 1945: El Soyo Del February 1945 Fortune (according to letters)
1947: "The National Parks" all photos by Ansel Adams. Fortune, June 1947
(?) 1945: Grandeur that is home. February 1945 Fortune (according to letters)
(?) 1951: Golden Gate Park, Life, Summer 1951 (according to biog., pg. 217)
(?) 1951: Kenecott Copper Co. Fortune, November 1951 (according to biog. pg. 219)
(?) 1952-54 Arizona Highways (according to biog.)
(?) 1952: Time around July 1952. (according to letters)
(?) 1954 Varian Associates Life, January 4, 1954 (according to letters)
1926: two photos reproduced as duotone plates "Royal Arches, in Yosemite Valley, with North Dome, 7, 531 feet high in the background. Photo by AA" pg. 25, "Groves of Quaking Aspens greet the traveler along Yosemite Trails. Photo by AA" pg. 76. "Taylor, Katherine Ames; Lights and Shadows of Yosemite, San Francisco; H. S. Crocker 1926.
1941: Adams' portrait of Cedric Wright in article "Mountain Photography" by Cedric Wright Camera Craft, May 1941, pg. 236
remarks about the 43 color scenes produced by Standard Oil Co., of Calif. The original Kodachromes were exhibited at the Western Amateur Camera Conclave in July 1940 in Oakland CA. Camera Craft, September 1940, pg. 474. (by this time the prints were already in circulation)
1947: "The side lighted waterfall, by AA, San Francisco, required 1/50 second at f/8, on Kodachrome Professional Film" Kodak Photo Magazine February/March 1947, pg. 4.
1947: photo reproduced in color "Monument Valley" Minicam. June 1947, pg. 17.
1948: "Ansel Adams' America in Kodak Color" Popular Photography March 1948, pg. 75-78, also The Camera, March 1948, pg. 71-4.
1951: AA endorses Hassleblad. advertisement, landscape photo. Modern Photography December 1951, pg. 22.
1950: Kodak Ektachrome ad uses transparency by AA. U S Camera, August 1950, back cover.
1952: AA endorses Hassleblad, advertisement, portrait of young girl. U S Camera, January 1952, pg. 32.
1959: AA endorses Hassleblad Cameras (advertisement). Popular Photography, May 1959, pg. 111.
1966: Kilgore, Bruce M. (Ed); Wilderness in a Changing World, San Francisco; Sierra Club 1966. AA photos on pg. 201-208
1976: photos by Ansel Adams with article by Lawrence Clark Powell. Arizona Highways, October 1976
Reviews of Books by Ansel Adams
Graphic Graflex Photography
First edition 1940
American Photography, (first edition) March 1940, pg. 230, col. 1.
Revised edition (entirely new Adams text and photos) 1944
Eighth Edition (entirely new Adams text and photos) 1948
Minicam November 1947 pg. 124.
Making A Photograph 1934 first edition
American Photography, January 1935, pg. 1-2. 4th edition with foreword by Edward Weston
American Photography, June 1949, pg. 396-397.
Modern Photography Annual 1934-5.
American Photography, November 1934, pg. 715, col. 2
Miniature Camera Work(1938) (chapter by Adams "The Expanding Photographic Universe")
Camera Craft, August 1938.
American Photography, August 1938, pg. 601
Sierra Nevada, the John Muir Trail (1939)
Camera Craft, April 1939, pg. 195.
A Pageant of Photography (1940)
Camera Craft, October 1940, pg. 533.
Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1940)
Camera Craft, October 1940, pg. 533-534.
Michael and Anne in the Yosemite Valley
American Photography, December 1941, pg. 876, col. 2
Exposure Record Minicam April 1948, pg. 102.
American Photography, January 1948, pg. 63, col. 1.
Camera and Lens
American Photography, May 1948, pg. 332, col. 2.
The Negative (1948)
PSA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, February 1949. pg. 106.
The Print
American Photography, March 1950, pg. 60, col. 1.
Natural Light Photography
Modern Photography July 1952 pg. 94.
Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada (published December 1948)
U. S. Camera, February 1949, pg. 46-47.
My Camera in the National Parks
The Camera magazine, January 1951, pg. 22.
Austin, Mary; The Land of Little Rain
The Camera magazine, January 1951, pg. 22.
This Is The American Earth (1960)
U. S. Camera, September 1960, pg. 26.
Radio broadcasts.
Ansel Adams on BBC Radio 4 Thu 8 Aug 2002 11:30 - 12:00 30 mins
ARCHIVAL FIBER PORTRAIT OF ANSEL ADAMS AVAILABLE NOW
8X10" Archival Fiber print made from original Hassleblad negative
Taken by Larry Smith at Ansel's San Francisco home in May 1961.
