Ansel Adams

2 unique Polaroid SX-70 prints, including Ansel Adams in Mirror and Ansel Adams in Shadow, the first signed and dated in ink on the reverse, the second mounted, each framed, the first with a Polaroid Collection label and the second with Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition and Polaroid Collection labels and a Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse, 1971 and 1978 (2)

Ansel Adam in Mirror:

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 4 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1):

Ansel Adams in Shadow:

Naples, Florida, 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)

Ansel Adams in Mirror:

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000), pl. 39 (this print)

These Polaroid SX-70 prints are in generally excellent condition. Ansel Adams in Mirror - In raking light, faint superficial surface scratches are visible. In the margin, '13 cm' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil. Also in the margin is a partially abrased small white label with typed credit, subject, and film type. Adams dated this print '6-2-78' in ink on the reverse of the print. An unidentified hand has written in pencil 'Ansel Adams' and '198035.' Ansel Adam in Shadow - In raking light, faint superficial surface scratches are visible. There is a tiny tear in the lower margin, which does not affect the print.
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