The Grand Canyon and the South West

Next to Yosemite and the High Sierra, the Southwest was closest to Ansel Adams' heart. It was there, in the early 1930s, that he met photographer Paul Strand and decided to make photography his life's work. In his words, "wherever one goes in the Southwest one encounters magic, strength, and beauty." In The Grand Canyon and the Southwest , Adam's little known images of the Grand Canyon make up roughly one quarter of the photographs selected and edited by his longtime editor, Andrea Stillman. The varied images portray the balance of desolation and stark beauty in the Southwestern landscape, from Texas to California. The pictures are complemented by an introduction by Andrea Stillman and a selection of Adams' vivid letters about the region. In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz he writes, "It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite . . ." Grand Canyon National Park, 100 Viewsis the official publication of Grand Canyon National Parks Centennial. Grand Canyon became a national park on February 26, 1919. In celebration of this legacy national parks centennial, the work of 32 of Grand Canyons most talented photographers is paired with essays by canyon veteran Scott Thybony in a love letter to an irreplaceable place. Like candles on a birthday cake, 100 breathtaking photographs capture the deep and abiding appeal of Grand Canyon as Thybony so eloquently writes, its pure geometry of earth and sky. After president Theodore Roosevelt toured Grand Canyon in the spring of 1903, he described it as beautiful and terrible and unearthly. Today, the more than six million people who visit Grand Canyon National Park each year some for the first time, some for the hundredth would no doubt agree with him. They stand awestruck on its rims, hike its trails, run its river. What they see depends on where they are, but the views are never boring, and never the same. One of the seven wonders of the natural world, Grand Canyon, Arizona, is an enigma that resists definition, and the challenge it presents has drawn artists, writers, and photographers to it year after year

Next to Yosemite and the High Sierra, the Southwest was closest to Ansel Adams' heart. It was there, in the early 1930s, that he met photographer Paul Strand and decided to make photography his life's work. In his words, wherever one goes in the Southwest one encounters magic, strength, and beauty.

In The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, Adam's little known images of the Grand Canyon make up roughly one quarter of the photographs selected and edited by his longtime editor, Andrea Stillman. The varied images portray the balance of desolation and stark beauty in the Southwestern landscape, from Texas to California.

The pictures are complemented by an introduction by Andrea Stillman and a selection of Adams' vivid letters about the region. In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz he writes, It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite . . .

Next to Yosemite and the High Sierra, the Southwest was closest to Ansel Adams' heart. It was there, in the early 1930s, that he met photographer Paul Strand and decided to make photography his life's work. In his words, "wherever one goes in the Southwest one encounters magic, strength, and beauty."In__The Grand Canyon and the Southwest__, Adam's little known images of the Grand Canyon make up roughly one quarter of the photographs selected and edited by his longtime editor, Andrea Stillman. The varied images portray the balance of desolation and stark beauty in the Southwestern landscape, from Texas to California.The pictures are complemented by an introduction by Andrea Stillman and a selection of Adams' vivid letters about the region. In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz he writes, "It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite . . ." A photographic celebration of the Grand Canyon and the southwest of America by landscape photographer, Ansel Adams. The selection covers the area from Texas to California's Death Valley, and the photographs are complemented by Adams' own letters about the region. Presents black and white photographs by American photographer Ansel Adams of the Grand Canyon, and images of the American Southwest with an additional selection of Adams' letters about the region http://archive.org/details/grandcanyonsouth00adam