Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (From Small Museum Set)

Print Notes

This image was made at 4:05pm MST, on October 31, 1941 , Halloween. In the original version of the image, which captures a moon rising over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains sprawled over Northern New Mexico, the sky is noticeably more even, light and flat.

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1941 | Printed 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image Size: 19 5/8 x 15 inches
Location: Rye ~ Unique ID 238

Publications

Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, p. 171 and 420-421; In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West, p. 173; Ansel Adams: Examples, The Making of 40 Photographs, pp. 40-43; Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 63; Ansel Adams: Classic Images, pl. 32; Ansel Adams: Images 1923-1974, p. 47; Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, pl. 37, p. 68; Ansel Adams at 100, pl. 96; Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, p. 274; Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, p. 142; Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest, frontispiece illustration; Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest, pl. 55; Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, pp. 114, 118, 119 and 121; Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, fig. 4.10, p. 94; Alinder, Ansel Adams 1902-1974 (Untitled 37, The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 55; Making a Photographer The Early Works of Ansel Adams, p. 215 et al.

Provenance

Purchased through Doyle Auction House.