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Lot 7
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1955
Closed10 December 2019
Price Realised
USD 22,500
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Specialist note
Adams wrote the following in a letter to Olive and Charles Adams and Mary Bray on April, 18, 1920:
'At present Half Dome looks like a volcano, and little swirls and eddies of snow dust are quite numerous on the cliffs of Glacier Point. I am going to attempt to photograph these snow clouds tomorrow and I do hope they will be successful...I consider myself lucky to be here with the snow. Never saw anything like it before.'
(The above letter as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 4)
'At present Half Dome looks like a volcano, and little swirls and eddies of snow dust are quite numerous on the cliffs of Glacier Point. I am going to attempt to photograph these snow clouds tomorrow and I do hope they will be successful...I consider myself lucky to be here with the snow. Never saw anything like it before.'
(The above letter as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 4)