Lot 252
  • 252

Ansel Adams

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • MERCED RIVER AND SNOW, YOSEMITE
  • Polaroid print
unique Polaroid Type 55 print, framed, an Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition label on the reverse, 1959 (Legacy of Light, p. 23, variant)

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Ansel Adams at Silver Eye Center for Photography, November 1999 - January 2000

Naples Museum of Art, Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, May - July 2004, and traveling to 8 other venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Condition

This photograph is essentially in excellent condition. On the reverse are four rust-colored remains of cello tape – these do not show through to the front. Also on the reverse are two old linen tape hinges.
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