Death Valley is SOMETHING! No use talking about it--it's just a tremendous nest of photographic opportunity.

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, c. 1948

Details

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, c. 1948
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed in pencil (on the mount); title, date in ink and Carmel credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 18½ x 14¾in. (47 x 37.6cm.)
mount: 28 x 22in. (71 x 50.8cm.)

Literature

Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 56; Alinder, ed., Ansel Adams: 1902-1984, Friends of Photography, Untitled 37, 1984, p. 43; Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 2007, p. 184; Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams in the National Parks, Little, Brown and Company, 2010, pl. 46; Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, 2012, p. 188

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Lot Essay

Adams was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1948 to complete his documentation of America's national parks and monuments, which he had begun with the Mural Project in 1941. His first stop on the trip was a blisteringly hot Death Valley, which, as he wrote in a letter to photographer Minor White, had inspired him to make more than eight dozen exposures of its desert landscape.

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