Lot 8
  • 8

Ansel Adams

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Ansel Adams
  • Aspens, Northern New Mexico
  • gelatin silver print
Plate 6 from Portfolio VII (New York, 1976), oversized, mounted, signed and with plate number 'VII - 6' and edition '85/115' in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp on the reverse, framed, 1958, printed in 1976

Literature

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 116

Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 174

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea G. Stillman, eds., Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 314

Andrea G. Stillman, ed., The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston, 2000), p. 85

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (Boston, 2001), pp. 104-5

Jane Swan Bush, ed., Ansel Adams: Trees (New York and Boston, 2004), p. 9

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 375

Condition

This photograph is in generally very good condition. Near the center-right of the image is a small, rust-colored deposit of indeterminate nature which may disturb the emulsion. There is edge chipping in several places. In raking light, scattered deposits of original retouching are visible. The mount is slightly age-darkened around the perimeter of the image and at the mount edges. The upper right corner of the mount is creased. Foxing is visible overall on the reverse of the mount. The perimeter is darkened in an approximately 1/2-inch strip where adhesive tape was previously affixed.
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