Transcendence: Photography and the Sublime
200
Ansel Adams
Afternoon sun, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
1943
Gelatin silver print from Portfolio Two, printed 1950.
9 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. (23.8 x 18.4 cm)
Signed in pencil on the mount; numbered '8' and '89' in an unidentified hand in ink and 'Portfolio Two' stamp on the reverse of the mount. Number 89 from an edition of 105.
Full-Cataloguing
"The wilderness will reveal the profound significance of life to him who approaches it without sentimentality or the possessive attitude." –Ansel Adams, Sierra Club Bulletin, 1932