Live Auction 19148Ansel Adams and the American West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Lot 24

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

The Golden Gate before the Bridge, San Francisco, California, 1932

Closed10 December 2019

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USD 22,500

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
The Golden Gate before the Bridge, San Francisco, California, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1970s
with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 ¼ x 19 1/8 in. (38.8 x 48.7 cm.)
mount: 21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in. (55.5 x 70.7 cm.)

Specialist note

'From there a grand view of the Golden Gate commanded me to set up the heavy tripod, attach the camera and lens, and focus on the wonderful evolving landscape of clouds' (Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, p. 19).