Ansel Adams photograph from original negative. Moon and Half Dome

Description: Beautiful photograph Moon and Half Dome by Ansel Adams. Printed from the original negative by Alan Ross, excellent conditon never opened or framed.Beautiful gelatin silver print of the most iunfluenncial nature phtographers of all time, Ansel Adams. Actual photo measures 9 1/4”x 7 1/4”. Matte measures 14” x 17”. Stamped, dated and initialed by Alan Ross on verso. Please note this is double matted, there is a hinged front matte that surrounds and offers additional protection to the image. Half Dome, the granite crest whose grand scope and sheer face, is one of Yosemite National Park’s defining features, was a frequent source of inspiration for Ansel Adams. Over the course of his career, which spanned more than half a century, Ansel made numerous photographs, each of which shows a different side to the dome. In “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome,” the peak is looming, and at that angle and proximity, it dominates the viewer with its massive height. In Ansel’s iconic photograph of “Moon and Half Dome”, it takes on a very different character. As Ansel put it, “I have photographed Half Dome innumerable times, but it is never the same Half Dome, never the same light or the same mood… The many images I have made reflect my varied creative responses to this remarkable granite monolith.” In 1960, Ansel made this image with a Hasselblad camera while driving towards the Ahwahnee Hotel, located within the boundaries of the National Park. As frequently happened to Ansel on his journeys across the South and West, the opportunity to make this image presented itself, and he seized upon it. After visualizing the image he wanted to create, he used his pioneering Zone System to place the moon in Zone VII, where it hovers above the sheer edge of Half Dome. By that time, late in Ansel’s career, his photographic techniques were well-established. With Ansel’s characteristic use of contrast, we see the delicate, almost lacy variations in the rock face, and the late afternoon shadow seems to carve negative space out of the dome’s monolith. As one of Ansel Adams’ iconic and enduring masterpieces, “Moon and Half Dome” stands out as an example of his later and most mature work. The majority of photographs synonymous with Adams’ oeuvre – “Moonrise, Hernandez”, “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome”, “The Tetons and Snake River” and many more – were created during Ansel’s earlier years. As older age forced some of the dogged treks and “mountain-goat” climbs that he so loved farther from reach, he found greater creative freedom in his darkroom. Indeed, though Ansel’s photographic output slowed with age, his love of photography only grew.

Price: 700 CAD

Location: York, Ontario

End Time: 2024-11-24T03:17:44.000Z

Shipping Cost: 10.77 CAD