White Branches, Mono Lake, California, 1947

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
White Branches, Mono Lake, California, 1947
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1970s
with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 19 3/8 x 15 ¼ in. (49.1 x 38.6 cm.)
mount: 28 7/8 x 22 7/8 in. (73.2 x 58.1 cm.)

Literature

Ansel Adams & Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. 314.
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1998, VII, pl. 1.
Andrea G. Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., 2007, p. 254.

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Lot Essay

'Mono lake, tragic and enchanted, with clouds rising over its black volcanic islands and white willow skeletons, bleached by its alkali waters, along its shore. Ansel photographed the strange, meditative reflection of the lake' (Nancy Newhall, The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963).

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