Morning Merced River Canyon Yosemite - Special Edition

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Ansel Adams
Morning Merced River Canyon Yosemite - Special Edition
2002

About the Item

Silver gelatin photograph by Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984), printed by Alan Ross (American, b. 1948). Stamped with Adams' signature and "YOSEMITE SPECIAL EDITION" on the front, with additional information stamped on verso. © 2/02 and dated April 2002. Presented in a grey metal frame with a white mat and Plexiglas. Image size: 8"H x 10"W Ansel Adams launched the Yosemite Special Edition series in 1958. Alan Ross made each Special Edition Photograph by hand from Adams ' original negative on gelatin silver fiber paper. Yosemite Special Edition Photographs are the closest photographic reproductions to Ansel’s original masterpieces, painstakingly handcrafted from his negatives by former assistant Alan Ross. Alan Ross worked under Ansel’s direct observation from 1975 until 1984, and has been producing the series in accordance to Ansel's instructions ever since. Ross, a master printer and fine art photographer in his own right, began working side-by-side with Adams as his photographic assistant in 1974; he's been the exclusive printer of this series since 1975. Each of the prints in this limited series bears an identifying stamp. Each silver photograph shimmers with brilliance, with richly perfected black and white tones. From a selection of 29 stunning images of Yosemite, this photograph is printed at 8” x 10” inches and authorized by the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Of all the American landscapes that Ansel Adams immortalized through his images, Yosemite was the most deeply personal. In Yosemite he discovered his spiritual home and built his family. He first visited the Park in 1916 and he returned every year thereafter, meeting his wife there and then raising his family within Yosemite's splendor. Ansel hoped his images would inspire park visitors to become activists for Yosemite's preservation, instilled with a deeper connection to the natural world and desire to protect it. With that as his main goal, Ansel conceived this series of Yosemite Special Edition Photographs in the late 1950s. With images of Half Dome, Lake Tenaya, Merced River and more, he invited everyone to be of part of his 'art as activism" by pricing the prints at an affordable cost. We honor that intention today, offering these stunning silver prints to all who wish to express their love for Yosemite and desire to protect it as a natural wonder. Today, with America’s wild spaces increasingly under threat, Ansel’s vision for the Special Edition Photographs remains as relevant as ever Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984), photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. He was raised in an environment that was deeply Victorian, and Adams was a solitary child; at the age of twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, the piano brought substance, discipline, and structure to his frustrating and erratic youth. Moreover, the careful training and exacting craft required of a musician profoundly informed his visual artistry, as well as his influential writings and teachings on photography. Always a lover of nature, Adams life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture" of the Yosemite Sierra; he spent substantial time there every year from 1916 until his death. There, he began using the Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie his parents had given him, joined the Sierra Club, and met his wife, Virginia Best; they were married in 1928. The couple had two children. The 1920's and 30's were busy years for Adams. He made his first fully visualized photograph, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, and gained his first patron in the person of Albert M. Bender, explored the "pictorial" style, and settled on "straight photography." Although his work gained recognition, it did not alleviate Adams's financial pressures, compelling him to spend much of his time as a commercial photographer. Still, Adams' technical mastery was the stuff of legend. More than any creative photographer, before or since, he reveled in the theory and practice of the medium, even creating the famous and highly complex "zone system" of controlling and relating exposure and development. Adams felt an intense commitment to promoting photography as a fine art, as well as being an unremitting activist for the cause of wilderness and the environment. His images became the symbols, the veritable icons, of wild America. Seen in a more traditional art history context, Adams was the last and defining figure in the romantic tradition of nineteenth-century American landscape painting and photography. Adams' vast archive of papers, memorabilia, correspondence, negatives, and many "fine" photographic prints, as well as numerous "work" or proof prints, are in the John P. Schaefer Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson. A portion of his papers relating to the Sierra Club are in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Adams died in Monterey, California in 1984.

Creator:
Ansel Adams (1902-1984, American)
Creation Year:
2002
Dimensions:
Height: 14.13 in (35.9 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
Medium:
Photographic Paper,Silver Gelatin
Movement & Style:
Photorealist
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Scratches on frame.
Gallery Location:
Soquel, CA
Reference Number:
Seller: DBH62351stDibs: LU5425827281