Ansel Adams

unique Polaroid Type 55 print, titled and dated in ink and with 'Polaroid Land Photograph By Ansel Adams' and technical stamps, annotated in ink, on the reverse, signed in ink on the mat, Carmel studio and 'This is the original POLAROID LAND PRINT and cannot be be duplicated. THANK YOU!' Polaroid stamps on the inside of the mat, framed, a Polaroid Collection label, exhibition labels, and a Polaroid Collections stamp on the reverse, 1961

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

Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, From the Polaroid Collection: Ansel Adams, sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, October - November 2001, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2003 (see Appendix 1)

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)

Likely this print:

Ansel Adams, Polaroid Land Photography Manual (New York, 1963), p. 104

Ansel Adams, Polaroid Land Photography (Boston, 1978), fig. 2-1

Another print of this image:

Edwin Land, Ansel Adams, et al., Singular Images (New York, 1974), pl. 42 and back cover

This print is in generally excellent condition. As is typical of such Polaroid prints, there is an unevenness in the overall glossy surface. There is light soiling in the margin and on the reverse is also visible. The lower margin is numbered '55 M' and '#34' in ink. On the reverse of the print, in black and red inks, Adams filled in the printing information stamp: Film '55'; Devel '25' @ '68'; Date '2-16-61'; Remarks '#34'. Karen Haas's and Rebecca Senf's book, 'Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection,' publishes the most comprehensive list to date of the studio stamps and labels Adams used throughout his career. The stamps on the reverse of the print and on the inside of the mat are not recorded in Haas's and Senf's book.
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