Mount Williamson, The Sierra Nevada from Manzanar (From Small Museum Set)

Print Notes

In 1943 and 1944, Ansel Adams documented one of the darkest chapters in American history, shooting a series of photographs of Japanese-American citizens in incarceration. The exhibition of these photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in 1945, titled “Born Free and Equal,” was met with considerable controversy in an America still at war. Due to the outcry, the exhibition closed early; for added measure, the book on the exhibit was cleared from shelves and destroyed.

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
c. 1945 | Printed 1980
Gelatin silver print signed by Ansel Adams in pencil on the mount, the Museum Set Edition stamp, numbered "376" in an unidentified hand, on the back.
Image Size: 15 x 18 inches
Frame Size: 26 3/8 x 30 5/8 inches
Location: Miami ~ Unique ID 216

Provenance

Purchased from the Virginia Adams Charitable Trust, through Weston Gallery.

Literature

Making a Photographer The Early Works of Ansel Adams, p. 201.