ANSEL ADAMS [Asa Stone Carving of face], Ca. 1965, Polaroid Type 50-series prints 4.5x3.5" ASG# AA/2813

This exhibition print is an original Ansel Adams at the lowest price one could ever find one for sale; a bargain for the beginning collector or any collector.

Provenance: Sotheby's Polaroid Auction June 21-22, 20108649 Lot 442. Sotheby's noted that this print was exhibited:
Stone Carving of Face, Quito, Pontificia Universidad Catalica del Ecuador, From the Polaroid Collection: Ansel Adams, sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, October - November 2001, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2003
Naples, Florida, Museum of Art, Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, May - July 2004, and traveling to 8 other venues through 2007

Adams, Ansel (b.San Francisco, CA., Feb. 20, 1902 - d. Monterey CA., April 22,1984) the leading figure in photography in the twentieth century and the creator of the most famous art photograph in the history of photography, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 as well as hundreds of dramatic landscape images.

Adams helped establish the department of photography at New York City Museum of Modem Art and in the formation of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (1975).

Adams began consulting for Edwin Land and the Polaroid Corporation in the late 1940s. He wrote thousands of memos as he tested the film over a 20-year period and he created a large body of Polaroid prints as well as enlargements form Polaroid negatives.

Excellent minor wear