Classic Photographs

Classic Photographs

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ANSEL ADAMS | 'RIVER, CLIFFS, AUTUMN' (MERCED RIVER, CLIFFS, AUTUMN, YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA)

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October 1, 07:03 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

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ANSEL ADAMS

1902-1984

'RIVER, CLIFFS, AUTUMN' (MERCED RIVER, CLIFFS, AUTUMN, YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA)


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 and 8), with title in ink, on the reverse, framed, circa 1939, probably printed between 1963 and 1970

image: 15½ by 19⅝ in. (39.4 by 49.8 cm.)

framed: 26¼ by 30¼ in. (66.7 by 76.3 cm.)

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 42

Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 40

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 140

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 24

Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, (Boston, 2007), p. 245