The ever-so-wonderful Jason Kottke has posted on his blog today about a trove of little-known photographs by Ansel Adams. See three of these images below or check out all of the images on Flickr. Gerard Van der Leun discovered a batch of 1940s images of Los Angeles shot by Adams that had appeared to have been lost to obscurity within the LA Public Library. Van der Leun has posted the images to his Flickr account (his personal photostream is worth checking out too).

Here’s a quote from Van der Leun that Kottke posted:

So I would conclude that with the LAPL material we are getting a rare chance to look at photographs a great photographer chose not to show the world. Obviously none of these images even touches upon the vast and central work that establish Adams as one of the greatest American photographers, but they do provide an interesting footnote to what Ansel Adams saw and thought worthy of photographing while ambling about Los Angeles during the opening months of World War II.