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Ansel Adams: The National Parks Service Photographs (Tiny Folio)This tiny treasure is a glorious tribute to Ansel Adams and to the vanishing landscape he loved. The often stunning and sometimes subtle beauty of America's national parks has been captured forever in the evocative images of Ansel Adams, the most admired photographer of our time. These photographs demonstrate the genius of Adams's technical and aesthetic inventiveness and expressed his deepest convictions as artist, conservationist, and citizen. Other Details: Now in paperback! 120 illus... |
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AntarcticaFantastic color photographs and illuminating text reveal the beauty of one of the world's last wild places and the hardy creatures that have adapted to it, as well as a history of Antactica and a survey of its various regions, including the peninsula, the ice cap, the ice shelves, and the outlying islands. Finally, there is a profile of the men and women who have established permanent research bases on the continent to help protect it from recurring threats to its mineral reserves and marine lif... |
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Antarctica: A Call to ActionMaster photographer and Global Green leader, Sebastian Copeland, issues a global clarion call in his latest book Antarctica: A Call to Action, the sequel to his bestselling Antarctica: The Global Warning. Copeland’s awe-inspiring images of the frozen continent capture the beauty of the glaciers, biodiversity, and wild wide seas of the Drake.Along with exceptional new photographs, Antarctica: A Call To Action is a concise and visually compelling discussion about global warming with a hopeful an... |
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Antarctica: A Year at the Bottom of the WorldExperience the strange beauty of Antarctica through photographs and exciting personal anecdotes that take armchair travelers and future explorers right to the edge of the ice! In this breathtaking book, Jim Mastro describes his striking year-long account of what its like to exist at the bottom of the world, complete with photographs, captions, and his own dramatic, personal narrative. Experience face-to-face encounters with pods of killer whales, deadly winter storms, and floes of gray ice. Endu... |
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Anthracite GhostsWalter Dinteman wandered the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1973, photographic the remains of the anthracite coal industry. Many of these buildings have long since decayed. Dinteman's photographs tell the story of beauty amid desolation, recalling the lives the people who lived and worked in the region in its prime.... |
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Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920This fascinating book is the first serious study of the place of photography in anthropology and the contribution it can make to an understanding of the ethnographic past. Focusing on still photography in British anthropology from about 1860 until 1920, it examines the content and contexts of over 150 photographs-many reproduced here for the first time-showing how to "read" the images and how they are used in conjunction with more traditional forms of anthropological information.... |
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Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest DayA reprint of the original 1978 classic, this book includes scenes of the Antietam battlefield both period and modern with directional maps. Makes some startling revelations using photographic evidence. ... |
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Antigua and Barbuda: A Photographic JourneyBeautiful islands, rich in history, and one of the favorite yachting and charter destinations of the Caribbean. Antigua and Barbuda are small islands in the Eastern Caribbean, 27 miles apart but with one government. Populated by Amerindians at the time Columbus sailed to the "New World," they were not settled by Europeans until the Earl of Carlyle claimed them for England in 1625. Although independence was granted in 1981, evidence of British colonial influence can be spotted everywhere. In addi... |
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