The Golden Gate before the Bridge, San Francisco, California, 1932

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
The Golden Gate before the Bridge, San Francisco, California, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1970s
with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 ¼ x 19 1/8 in. (38.8 x 48.7 cm.)
mount: 21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in. (55.5 x 70.7 cm.)

Literature

Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963, pp. 24-25.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, p. 19.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 21, p. 42.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 75.

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Lot Essay

'From there a grand view of the Golden Gate commanded me to set up the heavy tripod, attach the camera and lens, and focus on the wonderful evolving landscape of clouds' (Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, p. 19).

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