Live Auction 3457The Range of Light: Photographs by Ansel Adams
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Lot 5 Death Valley is SOMETHING! No use talking about it--it's just a tremendous nest of photographic opportunity.

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, c. 1948

Closed3 April 2014

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, c. 1948
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: 18½ x 14¾in. (47 x 37.6cm.)
mount: 28 x 22in. (71 x 50.8cm.)

Specialist note

Adams was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1948 to complete his documentation of America's national parks and monuments, which he had begun with the Mural Project in 1941. His first stop on the trip was a blisteringly hot Death Valley, which, as he wrote in a letter to photographer Minor White, had inspired him to make more than eight dozen exposures of its desert landscape.