In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 Other Scale Geologic Maps coal mines

coal mines

Rite in the Rain Field-Flex Notebook

and miles of wilderness

IRON-RICH HORIZONS IN THE JURASSIC NAVAJO SANDSTONE

remote alpine peaks

In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 Other Scale Geologic Maps coal minesThough photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams were contemporaries and longtime friends, most of their work portrays contrasting subject matter. Langes artistic photodocumentation set a new aesthetic standard for social commentary; Adams lit up natures wonders with an unfailing eye and preeminent technical skill. That they joined together to photograph Mormons in Utah in the early 1950s for Life magazine may come as a surprise. In a Rugged Land