Lot 64
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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas, c. 1947

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas, c. 1947
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed c. 1976
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp I] and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 14 x 17 ¾ in. (35.7 x 45 cm.)
mount: 21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in. (55.5 x 70.7 cm.)
Literature
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 171.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 106.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 181.
Andrea G. Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams In The National Parks, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2010, p. 101.

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Lot Essay

Adams wrote the following in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz on September 21, 1937:

'It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between macro and micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.'

The above letter as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 98.

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