Ansel Adams (88 page)

© 2014: The Imogen Cunningham Trust: Imogen Cunningham,
Alfred Stieglitz, Photographer
,
at His Desk
, 1934; and Imogen Cunningham,
Edward Weston and Charis Wilson Weston at Pt. Lobos
, 1945.

Courtesy
The Carter Presidential Library:
President Jimmy Carter Awarding Ansel Adams the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House
, 1980.

Courtesy Mike Evans,
Ansel Adams Meeting with President Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles,
1983.

Courtesy David Hume Kennerly:
Ansel Adams, 1979
. Cover of
Time
.

Courtesy of the Farquhar family: Francis P. Farquhar,
Ansel Adams on the 1927 and 1932 Sierra Club Outings.

© The Pirkle Jones Foundation: Pirkle Jones,
Nancy and Beaumont Newhall in Ansel’s garden, San Francisco
, May 1947.

© 2014 the Dorothea Lange Collection, The Oakland Museum of California, The City of Oakland, gift of Paul S. Taylor: Paul S. Taylor,
Portrait of Dorothea Lange in Texas on the Texas Plains,
c. 1934.

© 2014 Ron Partridge:
Ansel Adams Playing the Piano, at Home in Yosemite,
c. 1940.

Courtesy of Tom Zito:
Ansel and Mary in Yosemite
, 1980.

Special thanks for their generous efforts on behalf of the reproductions for this book to Nikki Baldauf, Ellen Byrne, Leslie Calmes, Tammy Carter, Linda Eade, Peter Farquhar, Denise Gosé, Drew Johnson, Rachel Mannheimer, Dianne Nilsen, Ron, Elizabeth, and Meg Partridge, Patti Ratchford, Amy Rule, David Scheinbaum, and Jonathan Spaulding.

A Note on the Author

Mary Street Alinder loves photography. She began her photographic education in 1965 when she met and married her husband Jim, a photographer, in Somalia. She was lucky enough to serve as the chief assistant to Ansel Adams from 1979 until his death in 1984. She had photographed sporadically but gave it up when she realized she could never approach Ansel’s level, or Jim’s. Ansel proved to be her mentor of consequence—a generous and patient teacher. She completed the 1985 bestseller
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
, followed by
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images
as coeditor in 1988. Alinder’s most recent book,
Group f.64
, is now available.

Mary has lectured on Ansel ever since he asked her to speak for him during the last two years of his life. Among numerous other places, she has appeared at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the M. H. de Young Museum, San Francisco; the People’s Cultural Palace, Shanghai; the Arles Photography Festival, France; and the Barbican Art Centre, London. She has also curated exhibitions worldwide.

She lives in northern California where she makes great pizzas for her friends and is the Mother of Sorrel in her community garden.

By the Same Author

Group f.64

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(as coauthor)

Ansel Adams: Letters and Images
(as coeditor)

ALSO BY MARY STREET ALINDER

Group
f
.64

Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography

Group
f
.64 is perhaps the most famous movement in the history of photography, counting among its members Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston. Revolutionary in its day, Group
f
.64 was one of the first modern art movements equally defined by women. From the San Francisco Bay Area, its influence extended internationally, contributing significantly to the recognition of photography as a fine art.

The group—first identified as such in a 1932 exhibition—was comprised of strongly individualist artists, brought together by a common philosophy and held together in a tangle of dynamic relationships. Featuring nearly one hundred photographs by and of its members,
Group f.64
details a transformative period in art with narrative flair.

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