It humanizes a legendary figure by showing his false starts
Mastery of Light: A recurring theme in the catalog is Akiba's obsession with light as a physical substance
Also photos of Cecil Beaton by other photographers and work by other photographers collected by Beaton
who provides an Afterword
(Photo of cover is a stock photo
Adams, Ansel. The Unknown Ansel Adams. It humanizes a legendary figureCatalog for exhibit organized by Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, Feb. 19 Apr. 11, 1982 and California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Apr. 16 Aug. 1, 1982. Exhibition included previously undistributed photographs from 1917 through 1982. The softcover catalog includes 8 B&W prints, an essay by James Alinder, and Adam's extensively re written essay "A Personal Credo," published in the 1944 American Annual of Photography. Laid in is a