books by James Alinder (classic seasons harvest)

books by James Alinder

books:

Sparkling Harvest: The Seasons of the Vine

2 reviews
Jack Davies

Harry N Abrams, 1997

A gorgeously illustrated story of Schramsberg Vineyards.
This coffee-table book actually makes great reading! It has splendid color and duotone pictures of the winery, the caves, the vineyards and the surrounding Napa Valley landscape in all four seasons of the year. In addition to telling how they transformed a mountain-side wilderness back into the Napa Valley's leading producer of fine champagnes (President Nixon took several cases of ...

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

13 reviews
James R. Alinder

Bulfinch, 1985

Both enlightening and inspiring
While this book is about Ansel Adams, it is also about the struggle to make photography a recognized form of art. If you have any interest at all about the non-technical history of photography, I would highly recommend this book. There is much more here than just the thoughts and ideas of one man. Each of the people that influenced Adams are described in detail, and in doing so, Adams ...

Ansel Adams: Classic Images

6 reviews
Ansel Adams, James Alinder, ...

Bulfinch, 1986

An exquisite collection!
This is a wonderful book filled with breathtaking photographs taken by the late and well-respected Ansel Adams. Each of the photographs contained is a unique masterpiece with a life of its own. Looking at these splendid photographs, one feels drawn right in to the specific location and year. Some of my favorites include, "The Golden Gate Before the Bridge" (1932), "Barn, Cape Cod, Massachusetts" ...

Quiet Light

4 reviews
John Sexton

Bulfinch Pr, 1990

adding to the body of photographic images
what is unique about his work...beyond the technical expertise...is the newness of the work....most of the images avoid the cliches and thus fill a void in large format photograhpy...which has a tendency to become repetitive...many of the images are totally new to me, i think he did some work in finding unique material

Ansel Adams: Classic Images (ISBN#0-8212-1629-5)
James Alinder, John Szarkowski

Little, Brown & Company, 1994

From Publishers Weekly: These classic photographs were selected by the late Ansel Adams himself to be permanently representative of his work. Included are familiar scenic compositions like Moonrise, Hernandez and Half Dome, Yosemite, but there are also portraiture and closeups of patterns in nature. Alinder, director of Friends of Photography, chronicles Adams's life and describes his particular development in which perception of subtle ...