Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah, 1958

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Self-Portrait, Monument Valley, Utah, 1958
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1973-1977
stamped photographer's Carmel credit [BMFA Stamp 11] and with Center for Creative Photography & AAPRT stamps (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 13 ¼ x 9 ½ in. (33.5 x 24.2 cm.)
mount: 17 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (45.3 x 35.2 cm.)

Literature

Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1985, p. iix.
Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, frontispiece.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2012, title page.

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Lot Essay

'I wish to utter a manifesto, or man an utterfesto! To Hell with the domination of Medium! Art is an attitude.' (Ansel Adams, as published in: Andrea Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1988, p. 257).

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