Details
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed by 1952
signed in pencil (mount, recto); stamped photographer's credit [BMFA 4], credited and titled on affixed Museum of Modern Art exhibition label, titled, annotated 'Courtesy of Fortune Magazine' and 'original print' in pencil and reproduction limitation in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 14 1/4 x 18 in. (36.2 x 45.7 cm.)
mount: 14 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (37.4 x 47.5 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982.
Literature
Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography from 1839 to the present day, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964, p. 133.
James Alinder, Ansel Adams: 1902-1984, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984, p. 16.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 116.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2007, p. 261.
Andrea G. Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012, p. 159.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Diogenes with a Camera II, November 25, 1952–March 8, 1953, no. 18.
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