Mary Street Alinder books

Ansel Adams: A Biography (1996)

Ansel Adams (2014)

Simply put, Ansel was burned out: the muse of inspiration had vanished. And he knew it, confessing to Beaumont and Nancy in 1952 that making photographs had become a bore.1 He had come to believe that all artists moved through these stages—rise, plateau, and descent—and he saw himself as being in...