Snow Hummocks at Valley View, Yosemite National Park, California

Print Notes

“Perhaps snow subjects offer the most exasperating problems to be found in all Landscape photography. The photographer is confronted with extremes of tonal value and a minimum of texture.” -Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, p. 416

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1949 | Printed 1959-60
Gelatin silver print
Image Size: 17 5/8 x 23 1/8 inches
Frame Size: 24 ¼ x 30 ¼ inches
Location: Sotheby’s ~ Unique ID 564

Provenance

Ansel Adams, 1960 by descent through the family acquired through to Sotheby's Photographs October 5, 2023, Lot 30.

Publications

Ansel Adams, Natural-Light Photography: Basic Photo 4 (New York, 1952), ill. 31, p. 59; Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 295 (variant).