Nevada Fall, Yosemite National Park
date: label: print made
content: ca 1968
label: negative made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Adams, Ansel
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Silver gelatin, mounted. View of water fall from river below. Mist from waterfall makes middle ground hazy. Foreground of river with rocks and trees on both sides. Signed, ink (recto: bottom right corner). Verso: Ansel Adams stamp which reads "Photograph by Ansel Adams Route 1, Box 181, Carmel, California, 93921" in black ink. Stamp with "Title, Credit, Date, Film" with "Nevada Fall, Yosemite National Park" handwritten, black ink. "RSN 82532R26" handwritten, pencil, bottom right center.
label: Description
content: This photograph, taken at Nevada Fall in Yosemite, showcases Adams’ mastery of precise composition. In his book “Examples,” the photographer detailed his long trek to the site of the falls, his patient wait for the right moment to capture the luminous rainbow in the foreground and the myriad of slight changes to the camera’s position in order to achieve the exact fulfillment of his visualization for the image ("Examples," p.121). This “protracted ballet” of nudging, tilting, raising and lowering was for Adams the art of organizing reality to create an aesthetically pleasing composition, and he was happy with the final result. “I think it is a choice bit of Chaos organized into some kind of expressive Order,” he wrote of “Nevada Fall” ("Examples," p.123).
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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Yosemite National Park
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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.69.117.01
label: accession number
content: 282326
label: catalog number
content: 69.117.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
label: Object Type
content: photographs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.5 cm x 35.6 cm; 17 29/32 in x 14 1/32 in