Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras

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ANSEL ADAMS
Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1927. 18 gelatin silver prints. Each signed in pencil and printed title in the margin. Each approximately 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm.) or the reverse. Printed colophon, plate list and each with paper folder with printed title. One from a limited edition of 150. (18)

Lot Essay

The plates include: Sierra Junipers; The Abode of Snow; Monolith: The Face of Half Dome; From Glacier Point; On the Heights; A Grove of Tamarack Pine; Mount Galen Clark; Mount Clarence King; Roaring River Falls; Marion Lake; El Capitan; Banner Peak - Thousand Island Lake; Mount Brewer; Kearsarge Pinnacles; The Sentinel; Lower Paradise Valley; East Vidette and Cloud and Mountain.

Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras was Adam's first selection of photographs, consisting of eighteen prints on Kodak Vitava Athena Parchment T paper.