Ansel Adams: the National Parks Service photographs

Abstract

In 1941, Ansel Adams photographed America's national parks for a series of murals that would celebrate the country's natural heritage. Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was suspended after less than a year, but not before Adams had produced these images, which illustrate both his early innovations and the shape of his later, legendary career as America's foremost landscape photographer.

Contents

Kings River Canyon -- Grand Canyon National Park -- Native Americans and their lands -- Zion National Park -- Saguaro National Monument -- Death Valley National Monument -- Carlsbad Caverns National Park -- Boulder Dam -- Rocky Mountain National Park -- Grand Teton National Park -- Yellowstone National Park -- Glacier National Park.