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

Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, California, 1938

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, California, 1938
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1978-1984
titled in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA Stamp I], with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 ½ x 19 1/8 in. (39.4 x 48.6 cm.)
mount: 21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in. (55.5 x 70.7 cm.)
Literature
Ansel Adams & Nancy Newhall, This is the American Earth, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1960, p. 85.
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1963, pp. 88-89.
Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. 243.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 369.
Paul Brooks, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1992, cover and frontispiece.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2001, pl. 89.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, fig. 5.5, p. 120.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pl. 57, p. 90.

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Lot Essay

'While living in Yosemite, I had great opportunity to follow the light and storms, hoping always to encounter exciting situations. There were hundreds of spectacular weather events over the years, but the opportunities to photograph them were limited to accidents of time and place.Clearing Winter Storm came about on an early December day. The storm was first of heavy rain, which turned to snow and began to clear about noon. I drove to a place called Inspiration Point, which commands a marvelous vista of Yosemite Valley. Rapidly changing conditions such as this one can create decision problems for the photographer. A moment of beauty is revealed and photographed; clouds, snow or rain then obscure the scene, only to clear in a different way with another inviting prospect' (Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1989, p. 103).

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