Ansel Adams
Chapel, Paul Masson Vineyards
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December 14, 10:16 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Chapel, Paul Masson Vineyards
gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, stamped 'From the Exhibit The Story of a Winery, Photography by AA and Pirkle Jones' on the reverse, overmatted, framed, circa 1959
image: 15 1/4 by 19 1/8 in. (38.7 by 48.6 cm.)
frame: 32 by 35 1/2 in. (81.3 by 90.2 cm.)
Otto Meyer, President of Paul Masson Vineyards
By descent to Thomas Meyer
Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, 2007, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
In 1959, Ansel Adams was commissioned by Paul Masson Vineyards to photograph its winery. He asked his friend and fell photographer Pirkle Jones to join the project. The resulting images document many of the processes necessary to produce a bottle of wine – from plowing a field with a workhorse to the picking of grapes to cellar storage. An exhibition of these photographs touring the United States, known as 'The Story of a Winery,' was sponsored by the Smithsonian in the 1960s.