Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
'Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, inscribed 'For Sam Lazar, Ansel Adams, Carmel' and dated in ink and with the photographer's Carmel studio stamp (BMFA I), with title and dates in ink, on the reverse, framed
image: 19¼ by 14½ in. (48.9 by 36.8 cm.)
frame: 29⅝ by 23½ in. (75.2 by 59.7 cm.)
Executed in 1927, printed in 1979.
Condition Report
Literature
Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light, Photographs 1923-1963 (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963), dust jacket and p. 45
Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 8
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 41
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 54
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 2
James Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1984 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), title page
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 77
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (Boston, 1985), pl. 2
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984 (Boston, 1988), p. 31
Karen E. Quinn and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Ansel Adams: The Early Years (Boston, 1991), pl. 6 and 7
John P. Schaefer, The Ansel Adams Guide Book 1: Basic Techniques of Photography (Boston, 1992), p. 153
Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), facing p. 106
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), figure 10
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 5
Amy Scott, Art of An American Icon: Yosemite (Los Angeles, 2006), p 124
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 35
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Boston, 2008), fig. 2
Mary Street Alinder, Group f.64 (New York, 2014), unpaginated
Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 (Boston, 2014), p. 143
Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 2.19