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Description: mounted on Crescent board, signed by the photographer in ink on the mount, his Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 5 and 6), titled by him in ink, on the reverse, matted, circa 1938, probably printed between 1962 and 1963

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Dimensions: measurements note 10 3/8 by 13 in. (26.4 by 33 cm.)

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Exhibited: Carmel, Center for Photographic Art, Ansel Adams: From the Private Collection of Margaret Weston, July - September 1995

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Published:

Other prints of this image: Ansel Adams
(Morgan & Morgan, 1972), pl. 71 Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light
(Boston, 1979), cover
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
(Boston, 1983), p. 102
Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston, 1985), p. 243
James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images
(Boston, 1985), pl. 46
Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984
(Boston, 1988), p. 369
Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite : Ansel Adams
(Boston, 1995), pl. 1
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100
(Boston, 2001), p. 89
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams
(Boston, 1977), p. 49 Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849-1950
(Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 128
Robert Doty, Photography in America ,
(New York, 1974), pp. 128-29

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Notes: Beginning in 1916, Ansel Adams made many photographs from Inspiration Point in Yosemite Valley, and the image offered here is the best-known of this series. Adams wrote of this image, ?I have been at this location countless times over many years, but only once did I encounter just such a combination of visual elements? ( Examples, p. 106). This confluence was due in large part to weather conditions. Adams arrived at Inspiration Point on a day in early December just as a storm, which had started as heavy rain and then turned to wet snow at midday, began to clear. Working quickly with his cumbersome 8 by 10-inch camera, Adams waited until the valley had been revealed to capture the fleeting retreat of the clouds and a sunlit Bridalveil fall on film.