Ansel Adams in Color

Pool, Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, 1947
Adams struggled against the technical limitations of the color photography of his day, but remained optimistic
Ansel Adams

Pool, Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, 1947
Adams struggled against the technical limitations of the color photography of his day, but remained optimistic that one day, "astonishing developments await us in...[the] electronic image."

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