Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958

Details

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed probably 1962-1963
signed in ink (mount, recto); photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp 5], with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 10 ¼ x 13 1/8 in. (26.1 x 33.3 cm.)
mount: 14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.6 cm.)

Literature

Ansel Adams & Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1960, p. 89.
Ansel Adams & Lawrence Clark Powell, Photographs of the Southwest, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1966, pl. 96.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1983, p. 63.
Ansel Adams & Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. 174.
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1998, VII, pl. 6.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 104.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, fig. 5.7, p. 123.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 373.
Andrea G. Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, pp. 198, 204.

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Lot Essay

'I made this photograph on a crisp autumn day in the mountains north of Santa Fe...near the crest of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, we came across a stand of young aspen trees in mellow gold. I immediately knew there were wonderful images to be made in the area. We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow. The forest floor was covered with a tangle of russet shrubs. It was very quiet and visually soft. The photograph is exceedingly popular at all levels of appreciation. I do not consider it a 'pretty' scene; for me it is cool and aloof and rather stately' (Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, p. 61).

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