Ansel Adams
An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Documentary (82 min.)
by Ric Burns

Few artists of any kind have enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime than photographer Ansel Adams. This program covers the themes that absorbed Adams throughout his career: the beauty and fragility of the earth, the inseparable bond of man and nature, and the moral obligation we owe the future in terms of our treatment of the land. Adams was convinced, as was his mentor Alfred Stieglitz, that all art is an affirmation of life, and the pictures from his nearly seven decade long career were an attempt to give form to his rapturous experience of the natural world around him.