Live Auction 3457The Range of Light: Photographs by Ansel Adams
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Lot 2 I felt I had accomplished something...I had achieved my first visualization! I had been able to realize a desired image: not the way the subject appeared in reality but how it felt to me and how it must appear in the finished print.

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, c. 1927

Closed3 April 2014

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, c. 1927
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed in pencil (on the mount); title, date in ink and Carmel credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 19 x 14¼in. (48.3 x 36.3cm.)
mount: 28 x 22in. (71.2 x 56cm.)

From the artist;
to The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Sotheby's, New York, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, October 22, 2002, lot 3

Specialist note

Adams first recorded Half Dome at the age of 14 with his Kodak Box Brownie. He took this magnificent photograph only eleven years later, in April 1927, having embarked on a challenging 4,000 foot climb through heavy snow. As Monolith engendered Adams' first 'visualization', he judged it to be 'one of the most exciting moments of my photographic career.'