TLS, 1962 March 17 : San Francisco, CA to Nick [Dean].

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TLS, 1962 March 17 : San Francisco, CA to Nick [Dean].

This is an amusing letter, full of humor, but one in which Adams discusses primarily his thoughts on commercial photography and photojournalism ("getting worse"), and critiques several other photographers and the work they have presented before the public.

2 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6907656

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Dean, Nick

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Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...