Still Life

In a career that spanned more than five decades, Ansel Adams was at once America’s foremost landscape photographer and one of its most ardent environmentalists.

John Szarkowski is Director Emeritus of the Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. His most recent book is John Szarkowski (Bulfinch, 2005) and another of his books, The Idea of Louis Sullivan, was reissued by Bulfinch in 2000. Szarkowski lives in East Chatham, NY, and New York City.

Irving Penn was born in 1917. He studied design with Alexey Brodovitch at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and, in 1943, produced his first color photograph, a still life for the cover of Vogue. In a career of more than sixty years, he has made an extensive and influential body of work in portraiture, fashion, and still life. Mr. Penn is the author of several books, including Moments Preserved (1960), Worlds in a Small Room (1974), Flowers (1980), Passage (1991), Still Life (2000), and Earthly Bodies (2002).