Half Dome, Yosemite
c1927/1931. Vintage photogravure, text including photographer’s name and title in plate above and below image, 13.6 x 9.8cm (image). Text includes “Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. XVI. Plate 1. Photograph by Ansel Easton Adams. Elson Co. Inc., Belmont, Mass.” Also known as Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. Adams first photographed the Half Dome in Yosemite at the age of fourteen. “Eleven years later he made this image with a view camera and a glass plate negative.” It was a difficult shot as Adams had to climb four-thousand-feet “through heavy snow to the granite outcropping known as the Diving Board…He described this episode as his first ‘visualization’ — his attempt to express the emotional and aesthetic feelings he felt at the time he made the photograph. Adams considered it a seminal moment in his development as a photographer.” Adams was a director of the Sierra Club, an environmental group founded in 1892, from 1934 to 1971. Ref: Ansel Adams Gallery; Wiki.
Item #CL191-40
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