ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California, 1944

Details

ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California, 1944
gelatin silver print, printed before 1955
signed in ink (on the mount); negative notation '1-S-14' in ink and San Francisco credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 9½ x 13½
mount: 14 x 18in. (35.5 x 45.7cm.)

Literature

Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 162; Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Company, 1992, pl. 99; Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown and Company, 2001, pl. 85; Stillman, ed. Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, 2007, p. 245; Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, 2012, p. 128

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Lot Essay

The letters 'LP' (Lone Pine) are still faintly visible in the hillside of this early print. Adams spotted them out initially as he found them intrusive, but this exercise was time-consuming and often only partially successful. The problem was finally resolved in 1976 when Alan Ross, then Adams' assistant, had the bold idea (without seeking Ansel's prior permission but with his subsequent approval) to etch out the offending initials on the negative.

Please see lot 6 for an exceptionally large mural version of the image.

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