Art
"Bridalveil Fall" Yosemite Special Edition Photograph from the Ansel Adams Gallery
- Item Number
- 134
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Sold
- 1 USD to Live Event Bidder
Item Description
This beautiful black and white photograph is hand made from Ansel Adams' original negative, and available exclusively from the family-owned Ansel Adams Gallery. This is as close to an Ansel Adams original photograph as most people can purchase, and it is spectacular.
- Image Date: 1927
- Print Type: Gelatin Silver
- Print Size: approx. 10"x8", matted size 17"x14"
"Bridalveil Fall" is emblematic of the images Adams made during the late 1920s, a critical development period in his career. During this time, he asserted control of the photographic process by accentuating and minimizing different aspects of his images, a process he called visualization.
Adams discussed visualization in "Modern Photography 1934-35: The Studio Annual of Camera Art," writing that before exposing the negative, "The photographer visualizes his conception of the subject as present in the final print."
His friend Francis Farquhar described Adams ' brilliance at visualization in a 1931 article for Touring Topics :
"It is the artist's genius which enables him to perceive at once the arrangement of masses, the flow of lines, and the texture of surfaces in the object of vision, whether it be a mountain, a landscape, a building, a cloud, a tree, a human form or face, or anything whatsoever."
Adams emerged from the 1920s with a new vision of his role as an artist and abandoned his ambition to become a concert pianist.
"Bridalveil Fall" appeared in Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail , Yosemite and the Range of Light , (out of print), Yosemite and the High Sierra , Yosemite , and "Classic Images," the book based on the Museum Set, a retrospective portfolio of what Adams considered his strongest work.
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