Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs

A very nice book at a very nice price. Matte cover, which is nice to the touch. Beautiful layout. Images, while 'black and white', appear to have a slight sepia tone to them, which Adams did, at times, employ this technique. This is a gift for a friend who is looking to take a road trip across the country. I am hoping / thinking this will inspire places to visit along the way.

I bought this as a present for a friend. I wasn't sure what dimensions the book will come in and was happily suprised that it was big enough to display the majesty, and beauty of Ansel Adam's photography. The version I received was the expanded version and includes some full page photos that were just incredible. Thank you!

Any book with Ansel Adams images is a must have - this book focusing on the National parks is a key text for the landscape artist and/or photographer. The image quality is excellent. The images are examples of what great composition is. This book will help you develop how to see landscapes and try your artistic eye to improve.

Photos are amazing and print quality is great! Some photos are printed small but that doesn’t bother me. Definitely a must own if you love landscape photography or black and white photography.

Great addition to our photo book collection!

I have been a big fan of Adams for decades. This book seemed a wonder! It is and it isn't. While I love the work, the photography itself if not as stunning as I was expecting! I know cameras have made enormous strides since Adams was recording history for us, but I admit I was not as excited as I thought I would be. You will have to decide for yourself!

Ansel Adams is a legend! Did a project on him in high school for photography class and loved his photos ever since.

Received the item without issue and have no problems with the seller. The book arrived early and in good condition, unfortunately I didn’t look at the size of the book…it’s really small and the landscape pictures are small and poor quality. They don’t do Ansel Adam’s work justice. If you’re planning to buy it for quality photos, please don’t.

The book is very good, with excellent works and a very nice selection of the collection that’s presented. Personally, I don’t like that there are no separate photographs from Sequoia National Park. My only real criticism would perhaps be the printing quality — everything is good and precise, but I feel that the dark tones are too compressed in the black areas; the blacks are too strong, causing some details to be lost… although that might be due to the negative itself, I’m not sure. Overall, I’m satisfied with the purchase — a fine item for anyone who enjoys classic photographic history.

Very good

この写真集のサイズは縦：約１１.６センチ、横：約１０.８センチと、かなり小さなものです。値段が安くて小さいので、手軽に買うことができるので、アンセル・アダムスの写真を取りあえず観るのには適しているかも知れません。 ただ、サイズがかなり小さいので、写真本来に備わっているはずの「迫力」がなく、その辺は買う前に頭に入れておきたいところ。個人的には、いくら小さい写真集だと言っても、もう少し大きくした方がいいのでは？と思うくらい。 その意味でアダムスの大自然を写した壮大な世界を楽しみたい人には、あまり向いてない。 写真自体は国立公園の風景写真以外にも１９４０年代のインディアンの姿も掲載されており、わりとアダムスの多様な雰囲気の作品に触れることができると思います。

Every enthusiastic photographer must have

I was excited to receive this book, but was sorely disappointed after going through it. If I hadn't read about Adams and seen his work in other books, I would conclude that he's an amateur photographer after viewing his work in this book. Yes, there are a few great photos in it, but they are far and few and the best is perhaps the one on the cover. Most of the others are not well composed and looked more like rejected frames taken off a contact sheet. To make things worse, many images are too contrasty with poor tonality. Some are noisy in the shadows while others have got clipped highlights and black shadows devoid of any details. I would recommend that you buy other books of Adams's work instead.