SIGNED ANSEL ADAMS 1948-1965 BASIC PHOTO SERIES Volumes - One Vol. Inscribed By Adams

5-VOLUMES OF BASIC PHOTO BY ANSEL ADAMS - Volumes 2, 3, 4 (two copies) and 5; ALL HARDCOVERS;
VOLUME 4 INSCRIBED BY ANSEL ADAMS.
Basic Photo Series: Camera & Lens, (2) [1st Edition in Dustjacket]; The Negative, (3) [No dustjacket, later printing]; The Print, (4) [Two copies: one 1 st Edition in Dustjacket, 1 signed by Adams]; Natural-Light Photography, (5) Artificial Light Photography [1st Edition in Dustjacket].
[Note: The series was complete in five volumes. The fifth volume mentions a sixth volume that is in preparation, but it was never completed.]
New York: Morgan and Lester, 1948-1965. Octavo, original decorated cloth, 4 original dust jackets. . Books very good and dust jackets very good with some edge-wear, mild spine fading.
With the Basic Photo Series, Adams "became known to a lay audience of photographers as THE expert…" Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography

“Adams’s return to teaching got him thinking about an expanded edition of his technical guide, Making a Photograph. He especially wanted to explain the principles and techniques of visualization and the zone system, as he had developed and refined these since the publication of the book in 1935. It soon became clear that the in-depth guide he had in mind would require several volumes. After securing an agreement with the photographic publishers Morgan and Lester, he began work on the first volume of what he would call the Basic Photo series. Always eager to play the evangelist, Adams hopes that his books would help to raise the level of quality among both amateur and professional photographers.