TY - BOOK AU - 13-8-20 TI - ANSEL ADAMS PY - 2002///; Sierra Club and Steeplechase Films KW - Photography KW - Art KW - Communications N2 - Written, directed and produced by Ric Burns and timed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ansel Adams's birth, Ansel Adams is an elegant, moving and lyrical portrait of one of the most eloquent and quintessentially American photographers. At the heart of the film are the themes that absorbed Adams throughout his career: the beauty and fragility of "the American earth," the inseparable bond between man and nature and the moral obligations that the present owes to the future. Ansel Adams was co-produced by the Sierra Club ER -