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Yosemite Before & After Ansel Adams

Posted on August 3, 2023 | No Comments

Predecessors & Students of Ansel Adams

CARLETON WATKINS
Half Dome from Glacier Point. c. 1867
8 1/8″ x 12″ Titled albumen print

ISAIAH W. TABER
The Lower Yosemite Fall (487 feet) and Mt. Starr King (5,080 feet),
Yosemite Valley, California. 1880s
9 5/8″ x 7 1/2″ Albumen print with credit, number, and title

H. C. TIBBITTS
The Fall Of The Monarch With Troop F, Sixth Cavalry, United States. 1899
16″ x 19 1/2″ Albumen print with credit, title, and date in negative

ARTHUR CLARENCE PILLSBURY
Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley. 1920
8 1/2″ x 3 1/4″ Orotone with title and photographer’s label

JOHN SEXTON
White Branch, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, California. 1974, printed c. 1980
14 1/4″ x 17 3/4″ Signed & stamped gelatin silver print

ALAN ROSS
Half Dome, Little Yosemite from Washburn Point. 1977, printed later
9″ x 11 1/2″ Signed archival pigment print

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Half Dome, Sunlight On Merced River By Ansel Adams

Posted on August 2, 2023 | No Comments

ANSEL ADAMS
Half Dome, Sunlight on Merced River, Yosemite National Park. 1935
19 3/8″ x 15 1/4″ Rare vintage gelatin silver print
On early warm-toned matte paper and a single ply mount
Signed in pencil on lower right of mount recto

This fine and velvety print is undoubtedly one of the first 16″ x 20″ photographs ever made by Adams. The Center for Creative Photography which houses the Ansel Adams photographic archive has an unsigned 8″ x 10″ print of this image.

The scene prominently features Yosemite’s Half Dome peak between parting trees, as summer light reflects on a flowing Merced River.