The Sierra Nevada: The Range of Light

The publication date of this book, 1947, is one of the earliest in the Covering Photography collection. Though not as well-known as he would be in the 1960s and ’70s, Ansel Adams was at the height of his creative powers in 1947, a date only four years after he made the image on this book’s cover. For a book on the Sierras, a photograph by Adams was as logical and predictable choice as any, even at that time. KB

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