Ansel Adams Bibliography

Adams's vast archive of papers, memorabilia, correspondence, negatives, and many “fine” photographic prints, as well as numerous “work” or proof prints, are in the John P. Schaefer Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

A portion of his papers relating to the Sierra Club are in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Technical

Making a Photograph (1935)

Camera and Lens (1948)

The Negative (1948)

The Print (1950)

Natural Light Photography (1952);

Artificial Light Photography (1956);

Polaroid Land Photography Manual (1963);

Polaroid Land Photography (1978);

a new technical series, including:

The Camera (1980),

The Negative (1981), and

The Print (1983);

Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (1983);

Basic Techniques of Photography, Book 1 (1992) by John P. Shaefer

Basic Techniques of Photography, Book 2 (1998) by John P. Shaefer

Biographical / Autobiographical

The Eloquent Light (1963), by Nancy Newhall and Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985), incomplete at time of his death

Letters and Images (1988)

Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: (1998) by Jonathon Spaulding

Ansel Adams, a Biography (1998), by Mary Street Alinder

Ansel Adams: America's Photographer (2002) by Beverly Gherman

Ansel Adams: Divine Performance (2002) by Anne Hammond

Photography

Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (1938)

Michael and Anne in Yosemite Valley (1941)

Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley (1946)

Yosemite and the High Sierra (1948)

My Camera in Yosemite Valley (1950);

My Camera in the National Parks (1950);

Death Valley (1954);

Mission San Xavier del Bac (1954);

The Islands of Hawaii (1958);

Yosemite Valley (1959);

Death Valley and the Creek Called Furnace (1962);

An Introduction to Hawaii (1964);

The Tetons and the Yellowstone (1970);

Ansel Adams (1972);

Singular Images (1974);

Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974 (1974);

Photographs of the Southwest (1976);

The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (1977);

Yosemite and the Range of Light (1979);

Cultural

Taos Pueblo (1938?)

Taos Pueblo facsimile edition (197?)

Born Free and Equal (1944)

The Land of Little Rain (1950, new ed. with Adams's photographs)

The Pageant of History in Northern California (1954)

This is the American Earth (1960)

These We Inherit: The Parklands of America (1962);

Fiat Lux: The University of California (1967);

Posthumous

Classic Images (1985),

The American Wilderness (1990);

Our National Parks (1992);

Ansel Adams in Color (1993);

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the High Sierra (1994)

Yosemite (1995)

Ansel Adams: California

The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (2000)

Ansel Adams at 100 (2001)

Ansel Adams Trees (2005)