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Lot 64
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas, c. 1947
Closed10 December 2019
Price Realised
USD 20,000
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Specialist note
Adams wrote the following in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz on September 21, 1937:
'It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between macro and micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.'
The above letter as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 98.
'It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between macro and micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.'
The above letter as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 98.