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ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)

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Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat.
Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat. Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat. Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat. Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat. Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat. Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat. Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico1941, printed c. 110 3/8 x 13 3/8 in.(26.35 x 33.97 cm) silver gelatin print
Provenance
Myron Wood, Colorado, c. 1960s
Paige Pinnell, Florida, c. 1977
Tom Potter, New Mexico, c. 1980
Nicholas Potter, New Mexico, by descent from above
Private Collection, California, 1995
with Wach Gallery, Ohio, 1998
Private Collection, 1998
Known for his rigorous engagement in the darkroom, Ansel Adams created 1,300 prints of Moonrise, Hernandez over 40 years of dodging and burning, creating a longitudinal group of masterworks. Moonrise is a formidable composition that holds us in suspended appreciation for its hauntingly beautiful impression. We do not need to know of Ansel's desperate scramble to set his tripod, find his meter to grasp that transience, or ponder the kismet of capturing that moment. In this 1959 print, all the glorious details are present: the almost, but not quite, full moon with its discernable features and the essential graveyard with its glowing markers and starkly illuminated white crosses caught in the waning moment of daylight's inevitable retreat.
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