(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978).

FIRST EDITION, REVISED OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY ANSEL ADAMS. In 1963 Ansel Adams wrote "It is unfortunate that so many photographers have thought of the Land camera as a 'toy', a casual device for 'fun' pictures, or, at best, a gadget to make record pictures!...The process has revolutionized the art and craft of photography--and is still barely across the threshold of development." In the book, the author emphasizes the role of careful craftsmanship, whether the purpose of the image is creative or functional. Properly used, Adams believes, Polaroid images may possess beautiful tonal qualities not possible with other processes. Item #30041

First Edition, Revised. Profusely illustrated throughout both in colours and black and white, with diagrams and photographs both. Large 8vo, publisher's original gray-black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine panel, in the photographically illustrated dustjacket. [xii], 307 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine.