American Experience: Ansel Adams

American Experience: Ansel Adams DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY photographer portrait art Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: PBS Released: 2004 Media: DVD AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: ANSEL ADAMS Few American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime, than Ansel Adams. None has had more profound impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent, or done more to transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. A visionary photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique and a crusader for the environment, Adams would take part in an extraordinary revolution: in photography, and ways of seeing what he called "the continuous beauty of the things that are." His greatest photographs would seek to capture "the instant of revelation -- of timelessness" amidst the evanescence of the natural world. Ansel Adams is the intimate portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist -- for whom life and art, pho