Grass and Burned Stump
date: label: print made
content: ca 1968
label: negative made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: Adams, Ansel
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Silver gelatin, mounted. Tall shoots of grass in foreground, bark on tree stump in background. Shoots of grass sparse, bark on tree looks like snake skin. Shadow across tree from top left center to bottom of stump. Signed, ink, bottom right corner (recto). Verso: Adams, stamp, handrwritten title, top center.
label: Description
content: Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is one of the most well-known twentieth century photographers. His contributions to the field of photography include his innovation and teaching of the Zone System. The quality of his photographs set the standard by which many straight photographs are judged.
label: Description
content: The collection in the Photographic History Collection consists of twenty-five photographs, all printed in or about 1968. All are gelatin silver, mounted, labeled and signed in ink by the photographer. The photographs include some of his most well-known images, but also portraits and objects. The selection of images was made in collaboration between the collecting curator and Adams.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Sierra Nevada
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photo History Collection
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content: Ansel Adams Collection
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Reproduction rights held by the Center for Creative Photography-Arizona
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.69.117.03
label: catalog number
content: 69.117.3
label: accession number
content: 282326
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Type
content: photographs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.7 cm x 35.6 cm; 18 in x 14 1/32 in