Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150

A magnificent deluxe, oversized book timed for the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Yosemite Grant, an event that laid the groundwork for the National Parks system. Ansel Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916, at the age of fourteen and returned every year throughout his life. It was in Yosemite that he fell in love with Western wilderness and became a photographer; he took more photographs at Yosemite than at any other place. Roughly 150 breathtaking images are exquisitely reproduced in this large-