1946
The San Francisco–born photographer Ansel Adams is celebrated for his majestic black-and-white photography that brought the deserts, mountains and forests of the American West to the public. His images, beloved for their raw beauty and the magic of their subjects, are known around the world and widely reproduced as calendars and posters.
A sickly child with little attraction to sports or games, Adams early on developed an avid interest in the natural surroundings of his San Francisco home, on the heights facing Golden Gate Park. This passion found a productive outlet in photography, which he discovered at 14, when his father gave him his first camera during a family trip to Yosemite National Park. He spent much of the ensuing decades capturing Yosemite’s vast and varied wonders.
Adams’s photographs were first published in 1921. Even these early efforts demonstrate his eye for composition and his sensitivity to tonal balance and textural contrast. In the mid-1920s, he began to play with soft focus, as in the dreamy 1927 Lyell Fork Meadows, which appears bathed in a hazy, nostalgic light. The 1948 Sunrise over Sand Dunes in Death Valley exemplifies Adams’s later experiments with stark contrasts in light and geometric framing, which transform the landscape into a near abstraction.
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Moth and Stump, Interglacial Forest, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount, with image number "6" in the lower left corner. Portfolio Two stamp with print #6 and set #A in red c...
Silver Gelatin
Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print with exemplary provenance is unsigned but bears several stamps from the artist's family on the back of the mount, including the authentication stamp of Adam...
Silver Gelatin
Tree Trunk
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with a title and negative number in pencil on the back of the mount. What is likely Wynn Bullock's most renowned neg...
Silver Gelatin
Cedar Fence, Pojoaque, New Mexico
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. Post-BMFA 11 studio stamp with title in ink on the front of the mount. An inscription by Adams' assistant "Pr...
Silver Gelatin
Tree and Rock Wall, Glen Canyon
By Brett Weston
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount, and again on the back of the mount. Printed in 1961 for inclusion in "Fifteen Photographs" ...
Silver Gelatin
Century Plant
By Brett Weston
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount. Likely printed in the 1970s. From the collection of Robert K. Byers, who was Brett Weston...
Silver Gelatin
Roots I, Cumuruxatiba Beach, Bahia, Brazil (Photograph)
By Araquém Alcântara
Located in New York City, NY
Araquém Alcântara Roots I, Cumuruxatiba Beach, Bahia, Brazil, 2013 70 x 105 cm 27.5 x 41 inches Edition of 10 100 x 150cm 40 x 60 inches Edition of 10 120 x 180 cm 47 x 71 inches ...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Roots II, Cumuruxatiba Beach, Bahia, Brazil
By Araquém Alcântara
Located in New York City, NY
Araquém Alcântara Roots II, Cumuruxatiba Beach, Bahia, Brazil, 2013 70 x 105 cm 27.5 x 41 inches Edition of 10 100 x 150cm 40 x 60 inches Edition of 10 120 x 180 cm 47 x 71 inches...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Blessing for the Trees, Black & White Photography by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Mohan L. Mazumder
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Mohan L. Mazumder - Untitled – 24 x 16 inches (unframed size). Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo Rag Bright White museum quality paper - 310 gsm Edition of 4 + 1 AP Style : Mohan ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Erosion #2", Contemporary Landscape, Tree, Roots, Black and White Photograph
By Rebecca Skinner
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Erosion #2” was photographed on the shoreline of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. The textural beauty is natures own art form. The 24 x 16 inch black and whi...
Metal
"Erosion #4", Contemporary Landscape, Tree, Roots, Black and White Photograph
By Rebecca Skinner
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Erosion #4” was photographed on the shoreline of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. The textural beauty is natures own art form. The 16 x 24 inch black and whi...
Metal
"Erosion #5", Contemporary Landscape, Tree, Roots, Black and White Photograph
By Rebecca Skinner
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Erosion #5” was photographed on the shoreline of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont. The textural beauty is natures own art form. The 24 x 16 inch black and whi...
Metal
