Article: America Ground Zero.

In the summer of 1953 Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams spent three weeks documenting a remote corner of southwestern Utah. They photographed mountains, farmhouses, people, produce, and road signs, but overlooked the wind. These old friends with very different approaches to photography hoped to merge their landscape and documentary skills into a uniquely well-rounded photo essay. Life magazine was intrigued with the notion and after a good deal of editing, and more than a little bickering, Life published "Three Mormon Towns" in 1954. Adams and Lange felt that the editing had distorted some aspects of the towns of Gunlock, St. George, and Toquerville in particular, but they ...

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