- 89
Adams, Ansel
Description
- 'CLEARING WINTER STORM, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CAL.'
- Signed Ansel Adams lower right
- Gelatin silver print
Gelatin silver print (15 1/2 x 19 1/8 in.; 394 x 493 mm), mounted and signed in pencil on the mount, a Carmel Studio stamp, title and date in ink, on the reverse, framed, 1944, printed in 1978. Together with: Ansel Adams, Images 1923-1974 (foreword by Wallace Stegner). Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. Oblong folio (14 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.; 357 x 432 mm). Grey cloth boards stamped "AA" in silver, black cloth spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket; spine of dust-jacket slightly yellowed. Puce card slipcase; faded, spotted on front board, bottom of case broken.
Literature
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 123; Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 71; Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), cover; Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 102; Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 243; James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 46; Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 369; Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), pl. 1; John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), p. 89; John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 49
Condition
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