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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, California

  • Literature

    Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, p. 66
    Adams, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, p. 261
    Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, pl. 40
    Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, pl. 97

  • Catalogue Essay

    "Live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the Earth." – Henry David Thoreau

Transcendence: Photography and the Sublime

147

Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, Ca.

1944
Gelatin silver print, printed 1978.
15 1/2 x 18 5/8 in. (39.4 x 47.3 cm)
Signed in pencil on mount; Carmel credit stamp with title and date in an unidentified hand in ink on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $18,750

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Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs

Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Deputy Chairwoman, Americas

 

Photographs

New York Auction 14 October 2020