Yosemite Valley, Thunderstorm, 1949

Details

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Yosemite Valley, Thunderstorm, 1949
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed probably 1950-1962
signed in pencil (mount, recto); photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp 4], and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 10 ¼ x 13 3/8 in. (26.3 x 34 cm.)
mount: 14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.6 cm.)

Literature

John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 88.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 290.

Brought to you by

Rebecca Jones

rjones@christies.com +1 212 636 2567

Lot Essay

'The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless, yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us' (Ansel Adams, My Camera in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1949).

More from Ansel Adams and the American West: Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography

View All