White M. The New Zone System Manual

Morgan & Morgan, 1978. — 148 p.For more than 35 years, The New Zone System Manual has been the classic introduction to the Zone System, a standardized method of exposure and development of black & white photography that was developed by Ansel Adams. Adams taught the Zone System in workshops, and he never intended his own Basic Photo Series to be a beginner's instructional manual. In addition, Adams' prose style is erudite and often insightful, but it is rather opaque to a beginner. The Zone System Manual was written by Minor White in 1961 to make the System more comprehensible, and it was extensively revised and updated with coauthors Richard Zakia and Peter Lorenz in 1977, and updated again in 1990.I am surprised that this book is apparently out of print, and I hope some publisher will soon make it available again. There are other books on the Zone System, but I know of none as organized and understandable.