Foreword by Wallace Stegner

This popularly priced edition of Ansel Adams' acclaimed book of letters—originally published in 1988 as a companion volume to his bestselling autobiography—will bring the vivid letters of America's most beloved photographer/environmentalist to a new generation of fans.

Ansel Adams wrote literally thousands of letters to fellow photographers, environmentalists, politicians, family, and friends during his long life — letters that reveal the growth of the artist and the man, while contributing a unique overview of twentieth-century photography and the environmental movement. Among those with who he corresponded are such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, and Jimmy Carter.

Wallace Stegner notes in his foreword that the letters "show him as his family and friends knew him, in the intimate interchange of daily life and at the highest reaches of his thinking and feeling."