Ansel Adams

unique Polaroid Type 55 print, framed, a Polaroid Collection label, an Ansel Adams & Edwin Land exhibition label, and a Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse, 1961

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, Polaroid Land Photography (Boston, 1978), fig. 4-3, likely this print

Other prints of this image:

Edwin Land, Ansel Adams, et al., Singular Images (New York, 1974), pl. 48

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), p. 47 

Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (New York, 2007), p. 380

This print is in generally excellent condition. As is typical of such Polaroid prints, there is an unevenness in the overall glossy surface likely due to the Polaroid coating. There is light soiling in the margin and on the reverse.
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