Live Auction 19148Ansel Adams and the American West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Lot 86

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah, 1958

Closed10 December 2019

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah, 1958
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1973-1977
stamped photographer's Carmel credit [BMFA Stamp 11] and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 13 ¼ x 9 ½ in. (33.5 x 24.2 cm.)
mount: 17 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (45.3 x 35.2 cm.)

Specialist note

'I wish to utter a manifesto, or man an utterfesto! To Hell with the domination of Medium! Art is an attitude.' (Ansel Adams, as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 257).