Ansel Adams

oversized, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title and date in ink, on the reverse, 1944, probably printed between 1973 and 1977

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco, 1963), unpaginated

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 77

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 99

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 38

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 262

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pl. 85

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 162

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 245

This print is in generally good to very good condition. The upper right corner of the print is lifting from the mount. A soft crease that does not appear to break the emulsion has formed in the same area. In raking light, the following are visible: a few glossy deposits (possibly glass offsetting); an approximately 6-1/2-inch faint linear scratch at the center of the print, as well as a few smaller scratches, mainly in the right portion of the image, none of which appear to break the emulsion; and 2 tiny impressions in the lower-center which do not appear to break the emulsion. There is some minor chipping to the upper edge of the print, near the left and right corners. There is minor soiling on the front and reverse of the mount. 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. Our dating of this print is based upon the authors' assessment of the use dates of stamp 11 on the reverse of the mount: 1973 through 1977.
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