Live Auction 19148Ansel Adams and the American West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Lot 25

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Surf Sequence 1, c. 1940

Closed10 December 2019

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USD 8,750

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Surf Sequence 1, c. 1940
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1970s
with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 11 x 12 7/8 in. (27.9 x 32.6 cm.)
mount: 15 5/8 x 19 7/8 in. (40.3 x 50.4 cm.)

Specialist note

'In subjects of this type there are many flowing, interweaving lines and surges of white and gray; the photographer must be alert to the combinations confronting him, and must try to anticipate the position of these moving shapes in time' (Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, p. 23).