Adrian Wilson photograph collection [graphic]. 1949-1992.

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Adrian Wilson photograph collection [graphic]. 1949-1992.

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Includes Collection contains slides and photographic prints pertaining to Wilson's activity as a printer (including photographs of his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francsico, Calif.); his travels; and his friends, family and associates. Also contains material related to the work of his wife and collaborator Joyce Lancaster Wilson. Includes portraits of Wilson and photographer Ansel Adams. Among the other individuals pictured are Michele Forgeois, Hermann Zapf, Lawton Kennedy, Ed Grabhorn, Michel Dreyfus, Donald Knuth, Imre Reiner, and Susan Else.

6 boxes (ca. 3,000 slides, ca. 500 photographic prints) and ca. 130 negatives : b&w and color ; various sizes.

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Press in Tuscany Alley

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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...

Wilson, Joyce Lancaster.

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Wilson, Adrian, 1947-....

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Adrian Wilson, born in Michigan in 1923, began his career as a printer in San Francisco in 1944. He at first printed programs and announcements for a theater where his wife, Joyce Lancaster Wilson, was an actress. He designed books for large publishers, but also produced fine limited editions, including work at his own press, The Press in Tuscany Alley. Wilson wrote several major works, including Printing for theater (1957), The design of books (1967), and with his wife The Making of the Nurembe...