Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
date: label: date made
content: ca 1968
name: label: maker
content: Adams, Ansel
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Silver gelatin, mounted. View of moon, few clouds in sky, New Mexican town in foreground. Pueblo church, left. Cemetery, right. Bushes all around. Mountains in background and low clouds. Signed, ink (recto: bottom right corner). Verso: Adams stamp, handwritten 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: New Mexico
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.69.117.06
label: catalog number
content: 69.117.6
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: image: 10 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in; 26.67 cm x 34.29 cm
label: Measurements
content: mount: 14 in x 18 in; 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm