Ansel Adams - Monograph (NICE PROVENIENCE) - 1972

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FANTASTIC EARLY MONOGRAPH from 1972 (!) by famous American photography legend Ansel Adams -
in the scarce first printing (there were also later printings).

NICE PROVENIENCE.
The copy comes from the private library of German Bodo Niemann, for a long time one of the world's leading gallerists for photography.

With the signature of Bodo Niemann at the top of the first title page and with a handwritten date by Bodo Niemann ("6/79"). In 1979 the German gallerist bought this book.

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Morgan and Morgan, London. 1972. First edition, first printing.
Second printing was published in the same year (1972) like the first printing, just 2 months later (october 1972); identical in layout, size and content.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 235 x 275 mm. 160 pages. 117 photos. Photos: Ansel Adams. Design by Liliane de Cock. Foreword by Minor White. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; partly sunned. Overall fine condition.

Ansel Adams at it's best.
A must-have for every Ansel Adams collector, fan and admirer.

"Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing.
Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 14, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
Adams was a key advisor in the founding and establishment of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department's first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona."
(Wikipedia)