ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Lot 7

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1955

Fermé10 December 2019

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California, c. 1955
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1970s
with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 ½ x 19 ½ in. (39.3 x 49.5 cm.)
mount: 22 7/8 x 28 7/8 in. (58 x 73.2 cm.)

Note du spécialiste

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)