Word: stegner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WALLACE STEGNER 214 pages. Doubleday...
Foreword by Wallace Stegner. 127 pages. New York Graphic Society. $65. Magnificent examples of the reverential grandeur in Ansel Adams' photographic art, reproduced under the perfectionist eye of Adams himself. At the age of 72 he is the pre-eminent black-and-white photographer of the American West. Adams' sweeping vistas of Yosemite and the Sierras, his close-up studies of wood, rock and plants and sometimes people have been repeatedly and justly praised. The purity, directness and technical excellence of his pictures attest to Adams' belief that "a photograph is made, not taken." Yet there...
...vacation in the Yosemite Valley and started clicking away at its prodigious crags. Since then he has become one of the most respected photographers and teachers in America, laden with honors and pursued by collectors. (His own selection of his work, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, will be published by New York Graphic Society in September.) Adams, who joined the Sierra Club in 1920, has also had a substantial role in spreading the gospel of ecology and conservation...
...Stegner believes that the quintessential DeVoto was DeVoto the polemicist. He railed against censors, education-school pedagogues, the Old Left and the New Critics (whom he called simply "the boys"). He was a growling consumer advocate who made long lists of things that didn't work, including kitchen knives, portable typewriters and processed cheese ("unfit even to bait mice with"). He fought for conservation before anybody knew there was a fight...
...DeVoto always in such an uproar? Edmund Wilson once asked, genuinely puzzled. Part of the answer is that DeVoto-to use an almost obsolete word for an almost obsolete species -was a curmudgeon. It is Stegner's finest instinct that he does not try to make his curmudgeon correct-just very necessary...