Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light

Abstract

Nancy Newhall’s collaboration, as writer and editor, with the landscape photographer Ansel Adams was an important partnership, which was sustained until Newhall’s death. For a brief period during the Second World War, she was curator of the fledgling photography department of New York's Museum of Modem Art. Nancy Newhall's collaboration, as writer and editor, with the landscape photographer Ansel Adams was an important partnership, which was sustained until Newhall's death. If it is a poet who perceives the aerial image, it is an arithmetician who converts it, as well as ‘the perversity of the inanimate’ will let him, into a negative. Through the changing idealisms of the decades, Adams has emerged more and more himself, his vision and message increasing in depth and power. ‘Some photographers take reality as the sculptors take wood or stone and upon it impose the dominations of their own thought and spirit.

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