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Ansel Adams

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

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October 5, 05:10 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA 11), with title in ink, on the reverse, framed, 1927, probably printed between 1973 and 1977

image: 19½ by 14½ in. (49.5 by 36.7 cm.)

frame: 31 by 27 in. (78.8 by 68.4 cm.)

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), dust jacket and p. 45

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 8

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 41

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 54

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 2

James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), title page

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 77

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 2

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 31

Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Ansel Adams: The Early Years (Boston, 1991), pl. 6 and 7

John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), p. 153

Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), facing p. 106

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), figure 10

Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 5

Amy Scott, Art of An American Icon: Yosemite (Los Angeles, 2006), p 124

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 35

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), fig. 2

Mary Street Alinder, Group f.64 (New York, 2014), unpaginated

Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 143

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 2.19