Rose and Driftwood (From Large Museum Set)

Print Notes

Prints of this image are rare. Made in Ansel Adams’ San Francisco home with north-facing light from a window, the artist tried books, bowls, pillows as the background before settling on the driftwood. 4 by 5 view camera with an 8-inch Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat lens. Six different exposures at different settings resulting in the successful exposure at f/45 with a five-second exposure.

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1932 | Printed c. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image Size: 11 x 14 inches
Framed
Location: AAP ~ Unique ID 289

Provenance

Acquired from Anne Adams Helms, 2016.

Literature

Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (Boston, 1985), p. 33; Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York, 1996), unpaginated illustration; James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, (Boston, 1985), pl. 7; Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 2002), p. 32; Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005), pl. 19; Andrea Gray Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams (Boston, 2012), p. 67