first edition
1989 · Santa Barbara
by Adams, Ansel, Peter Wright An John Armor
Santa Barbara: Reverie Press, 1989. First Edition. Quarto. . First printing. 112pp., with an index to each photograph. These photographs were selected and with an introduction by Peter Wright and John Armor. During the years 1941-1942, Adams was employed by the U.S. Department of the Interior to take a series of photographs in the Western national parks. These became part of the Mural Project which gave Adams a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel at government expense and photograph the national parks. This volume marks the first time the Mural Project photographs have been presented to the general public. A fine copy bound in black cloth lettered in silver, in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
(Inventory #: 022078)