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Ansel Adams

'The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming'

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Ansel Adams

1902 - 1984

'The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming'


gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and date ‘Aug. 1978’ in ink, on the reverse, framed

image: 15⅜ by 18⅞ in. (39 by 47.9 cm.)

frame: 27⅞ by 30⅞ in. (70.8 by 78.4 cm.)

Executed in 1942, printed in 1978.

Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth (San Francisco, 1960) p. 15

Ansel Adams, The Print (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1968), fig. 1

Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 56

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 192

James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 35

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 331

Peter Wright and John Armor, The Mural Project: Photographs by Ansel Adams (Santa Barbara, 1989), p. 73

Andrea Gray Stillman and William A. Turnage, eds., Our National Parks (Boston, 1992), cover and p. 31

Ansel Adams: The National Park Services Photographs (London, 1994), pl. 137

Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), cover and p. 205

Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Ansel Adams: Landscape of the American West (London, 2008), pp. 44-5

Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 6.7

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