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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Lot 344

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944

Closed5 October 2018

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed by 1952
signed in pencil (mount, recto); stamped photographer's credit [BMFA 4], credited and titled on affixed Museum of Modern Art exhibition label, titled, annotated 'Courtesy of Fortune Magazine' and 'original print' in pencil and reproduction limitation in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 14 1/4 x 18 in. (36.2 x 45.7 cm.)
mount: 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (37.4 x 47.5 cm.)

Acquired directly from the artist by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982.

Specialist note

The 1952–1953 exhibition Diogenes with a Camera II was organized by Edward Steichen, then the Director of The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Photography. Consisting of 130 photographs, this was the second in a series of exhibitions that aimed to 'demonstrate how the art of photography has added to our knowledge of the truth'. The present work by Ansel Adams was included in this exhibition, along with works by Dorothea Lange, Tosh Matsumoto, Aaron Siskind, Todd Webb and Man Ray.