Aperture 79, 1977. Ansel Adams, Walter Chappell, Eikoh Hosoe, et al. Camera Magazine cropped out text

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Jane Reece

self-published first edition of the photographer's first book

behind-the-scenes access to the West Wing

Aperture 79, 1977. Ansel Adams, Walter Chappell, Eikoh Hosoe, et al. Camera Magazine cropped out textFrom the brief period when Aperture was issued in hardcover only. This issue includes Ansel Adams at his 75th birthday party, with the cake decorated as "Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico," and chapters with photos by Walter Chappell (with text by Lee Friedlander); Russell Drisch; Henry Peach Robinson; Eikoh Hosoe (about Ordeal by Roses, with texts by Yukio Mishima); "The Silence of Stones: The Photographer as Artist," by Brewster Ghiselin; and