David Rockefeller, Chairman of the Board; Henry Allen Moe,
William S. Paley, Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, Vice-Chairmen; Wil-
liam A. M. Burden, President; James Thrall Soby, Ralph F.
Colin, Gardner Cowles, Vice-Presidents; Alfred H. Barr, Jr.,
*Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, *Mrs. W. Murray Crane, John de
Meinil, René d'Harnoncourt, Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon, Mrs.
Edsel B. Ford, * A. Conger Goodyear, *Mrs. Simon Guggen-
heim, Wallace K. Harrison, Mrs. Walter Hochschild, * James
W. Husted, Philip C. Johnson, Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, John L.
Loeb, Mrs. Henry R. Luce, Porter A. McCray, Ranald H.
Macdonald, Mrs. Samuel A. Marx, Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller,
Mrs. Charles S. Payson, * Duncan Phillips, Mrs. John D. Rocke-
feller 3rd, Nelson A. Rockefeller, * Paul J. Sachs, Mrs. Donald
B. Straus, G. David Thompson, * Edward M. M. Warburg,
Monroe Wheeler, John Hay Whitney.

*Honorary Trustee for Life

On behalf of the Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art, I wish
to express my gratitude to the many lenders whose generous
cooperation made possible the exhibition on which this book
is based:

Ansel Adams, Carmel, California; Miriam Bennett, Wiscon-
sin Dells, Wisconsin; Harry Callahan, Providence, Rhode Is-
land; Paul Caponigro, Brooklyn, New York; Howard Chap-
nickof Black Star Publishing Company, New York; William
Current, Taos, New Mexico; Jesse E. Ebert, Seattle, Washing-
ton; William A. Garnett, Napa, California; Mrs. Dorothy S.
Norman, New York; Eliot Porter, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Art Sinsabaugh, Champaign, Illinois; Edward Steichen, West
Redding, Connecticut; Bradford Washburn, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Brett Weston, Carmel, California; and Cole
Weston, Carmel, California.

The Art Institute of Chicago; The George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The
Minnesota State Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota; The
Public Library of the City and County of Denver; and the
Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.

The exhibition also includes works from the Museum Col-
lection which were acquired through the generosity of the
following donors: Ansel Adams, Carmel, California; Merle
Armitage, Yucca Valley, California; the late Albert M. Bender;
Thomas J. Maloney, Titusville, New Jersey; David H. McAl-
pin, Princeton, New Jersey; Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiu, New
Mexico; Eliot Porter, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Edward Stei-
chen, West Redding, Connecticut; and Paul Strand, Orgeval,
France.

For assistance in gathering photographs and documentary
material I would like to thank Eugene D. Becker, Edgar Brei-
tenbach, Robert M. Doty, John T. Eastlick, Hugh Edwards,
Alan Fern, Milton Kaplan, Nathan Lyons, A. Hyatt Mayor,
Beaumont Newhall, Dolores C. Renze, and Paul Vanderbilt.

My deepest thanks go to the members of the Department of
Photography, for their valuable counsel, high competence, and
enthusiasm: Grace M. Mayer, Curator; Rolf P. Petersen, Pho-
tographer; Davis Pratt, Assistant Curator; and Patricia M.
Walker, Secretary. Special mention must be made of Mr.
Petersen's skillful reprinting of difficult historical negatives. I
am also indebted to Edward Steichen, Director Emeritus of the
Department of Photography, for his advice and criticism; to
Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, for
his critical reading of the book's introductory essay; and to
Arthur Drexler, Director of the Department of Architecture
and Design, for the design of the exhibition.

For special assistance, I am most grateful to David H.
McAlpin.

The Museum's thanks are due The Sierra Club, for generous-
ly permitting the reprinting on this book's back cover of
Tamarisk aiid Grass, River's Edge (from The Place No One Knew:
Glen Canyon on the Colorado, by Eliot Porter, edited by David Brower
, The Sierra Club, 1963). J. S.

Front Cover: W. H. Jackson. Glacier Point, Yosemite. (c. 1895).
Denver Public Library, Western Collection

© 1963, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 63-21829

Designed by Mary Ahern

Printed in the United States of America by Clarke & Way, Inc.

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