Santa Monica, CA
Details
- Dimensions
- 25.5ʺW × 0.01ʺD × 36ʺH
- Styles
- Contemporary
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Pop Culture
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1980s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Lithograph
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Very Good Original Condition, very minor handling creases, will frame up beautifully, thicker glossy paper. Very Good Original Condition, very minor handling creases, will frame up beautifully, thicker glossy paper. less
- Description
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It states in small type under the photograph, "Moonrise , Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941. Copyright 1981 by the Trustees of …
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It states in small type under the photograph, "Moonrise , Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941. Copyright 1981 by the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Poster designed by Stephen Harvard, printed by Gardner/Fulmer. I think it is done with special varnish over the black and white photographic area. It states in small type under the photo the following, "Leaves, Mt. Rainer National Park, Washington 1942. Copyright 1942, Copyright 1984 by the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Published by New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Designed by Stephen Harvard, printed by Gardner /Fulmer.
ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was a landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed in exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography.
Adams was a life-long advocate for environmental conservation, and his photographic practice was deeply entwined with this advocacy. At age 12, he was given his first camera during his first visit to Yosemite National Park. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was later contracted with the United States Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
Adams was a key advisor in establishing the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an important landmark in securing photography's institutional legitimacy. He helped to stage that department's first photography exhibition, helped found the photography magazine Aperture, and co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. less
Santa Monica, CA
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