books.google.com - Working with a cumbersome 8 x 10 field camera, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) created some of the most dramatic and influential photographs ever made of the American West. His majestic landscapes and evocative still lifes conveyed a vision of an idealized America that helped inspire the wilderness conservation...http://books.google.com/books/about/Ansel_Adams_and_the_American_Landscape.html?id=gYrwnAL8nYMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAnsel Adams and the American Landscape