Description: This description is taken from the cover sheet:
“Arguably the best book yet written for those wishing to pursue photography seriously, Basic Techniques of Photography, Book 1 has been completely revised and updated in order to keep pace with fast-moving technological advances in the field. The revised edition includes more than fifty new illustrations, offering still greater clarity in presenting Ansel Adams’ legendary approach to photography.

Since its publication in 1992, The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography, Book 1 has sold more than 100,000 copies and is used in many introductory photography courses. This revised edition offers new information on:

variable-contrast papers
digital cameras and view cameras
the Advanced Photo System

Book 1 is organized to present the principles of black-and-white and color photography to a broad range of photographers-from the serious beginner to the advanced amateur. It draws extensively on the philosophy and techniques of Ansel Adams, the best-known writer/teacher of photography of all time, and is profusely illustrated with Adams’ own work as well as that of other photographers. Adams’ technical writings were famously difficult to understand. However, in Book 1, John Schaefer skilfully interprets Adams’ words, theories and art as a foundation for a more clearly written, understandable, and actively up-to-date guide to creative photography.”

ISBN: 0-8212-2613-4
Pages: 418

Condition: This book – the revised 1999 edition – has been wrapped in clear film to protect it. The book contained a little bookmark, marked “1987”, with a note from a little girl to her dad, so perhaps this was a gift later in life. The condition is very good, there don’t seem to be any marks or tears.

John P Schaefer

The Ansel Adams Guide – Basic Techniques of Photography (Book 1, Rev. 1999)