A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Photographs
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Photographs
Ansel Adams
'Clouds - New Mexico'
Auction Closed
February 17, 07:14 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'Clouds - New Mexico'
gelatin silver print, titled and annotated 'Plate 2' in ink on the reverse, framed, 1937, printed no later than 1938
image: 4⅜ by 6¼ in. (11.1 by 15.9 cm.)
frame: 15⅞ by 17 in. (40.3 by 43.2 cm.)
The photographer to Fenwick Small, editor of Zeiss magazine
By descent to Fenwick Small, Jr.
Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, 2006, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, as agent
Ansel Adams, 'Landscape and Cloud Photography,' Zeiss, vol. IV, no. 6, June 1938, p. 127 (this print)
Adams made this print for a 1938 article published in Zeiss, a magazine devoted to photography created with Zeiss Ikon cameras. Adams' article is filled with technical information and notes that these photographs were taken with a Zeiss Juwell fitted with a 22cm Protar lens.