In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 Other Scale Geologic Maps or at a river camp

or at a river camp

remote alpine peaks

and miles of wilderness

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In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 Other Scale Geologic Maps or at a river campThough 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