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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Church at Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1929-1930

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Church at Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1929-1930
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1977
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled, dated and variously annotated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp 11], and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 9 3/8 x 13 in. (23.8 x 33 cm.)
mount: 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (40.3 x 50.4 cm.)
Literature
Ansel Adams & Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Bulfinch, New York, 1976, p. 95.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, p. 90.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams, Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, fig. 1.13, p. 30.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, p. 52.

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Lot Essay

'I had not seen a photograph of the Ranchos de Taos church and had no idea of its magnificent form before I first viewed it (but did not photograph it) in 1927. The front aspects of the church are moderately impressive….It is the rear elevation that defines this building as one of the great architectural monuments of America. It had been interpreted by numerous painters and photographers, and I could not resist the challenge' (Ansel Adams, as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 53).

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