1976, Signed, Not Man Apart, Robinson Jeffers, Ansel Adams, Big Sur Coast Photographs, Poetry

Not Man Apart

Lines from Robinson Jeffers

Photographs of the Big Sur Coast

by

Edward Weston, Philip Hyde, Steve Crouch, Cedric Wright,

Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Eliot Porter, Cole Weston, Morley Baer and others

Foreword by Loren Eiseley

Published by Sierra Club San Francisco in 1976

Signed by Ansel Adams

Second Edition

Original Soft Binding

144 Pages

Fully Illustrated 

22 cm x 29.5 cm 

John Robinson Jeffers (1887 – 1962) was an American poet known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers’ poetry was written in narrative and epic form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement.  

Ansel Easton Adams (1902 – 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating “pure” photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a technical understanding of how the tonal range of an image is the result of choices made in exposure, negative development, and printing .

Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California, between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery. Big Sur has been called the “longest and most scenic stretch of undeveloped coastline in the contiguous United States”, a sublime “national treasure that demands extraordinary procedures to protect it from development”, and “one of the most beautiful coastlines anywhere in the world , an isolated stretch of road, mythic in reputation”. The views, redwood forests, hiking, beaches, and other recreational opportunities have made Big Sur a popular destination for visitors from around the world.