Taos pueblo / photographed by Ansel Easton Adams and described by Mary Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Mary, 1868-1934.

Contributor:

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.

Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taos (N.M.).

Taos Indians.

Penn Provenance:

Portenar, Myron A. (donor) (Portenar Collection copy)

Portenar, Anne Jaffe (donor) (Portenar Collection copy)

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 (autograph) (Portenar Collection copy)

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered pages, 19 leaves, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 45 cm

Edition:

Facsim. edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : New York Graphic Society, 1977.

Summary:

"When Taos Pueblo, his first book, was published in 1930, Ansel Adams was just 28 ... Adams had only recently put aside a nascent career as a concert pianist to pursue photography full time, but he still wasn't sure he could make a go of it when he took up the Taos project in collaboration with Mary Austin, a popular novelist and nature writer based in Santa Fe. ... The twelve photos in Taos Pueblo--each an original print on silver bromide paper prepared especially for the book by Adam's San Francisco custom-paper supplier, William Dassonville--include several formal portraits reminiscent of Edward Curtis and nearly circumscribed, almost intimate landscapes that are a far cry from the inflated magnificence associated with Adam's later work. ... The book's solid success at the height of the Depression (all 108 copies sold over two years at $75 a piece) encouraged Adams to continue in his course as a photographer of the American landscape."--The Book of 101 Books : Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century / Edited by Andrew Roth. New York : PPP Editions in association with Ruth Horowitz, 2001.

Notes:

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.

Facsimile of copy no. 1 signed by author and by artist and published in 1930 by the Grabhorn Press.

Of this edition "DCCCCL copies of this book ... copy number ..." signed by the artist.

Issued in slipcase.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Myron Portenar and Anne Jaffe Portenar.

Fine Arts copy has number 654.

ISBN:

0821207229

9780821207222

OCLC:

3368382