From Adams to Stieglitz

This title examines the life and work of several of the 20th century's most important photographers, including Ansel Adams, Alfred Steiglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston. The author was the curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Publisher NotesNancy Newhall, the first curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote some of the most incisive work ever published on the inner lives of the photographers who shaped the medium. Her friendships with Ansel Adams, Helen Levitt, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston, to name just a few, lend her writing a vibrancy rarely found in photography. Opinionated, impassioned, and free with praise and criticism, Newhall brings the reader close to the work and lives of many of photography's pioneers.