• Original signed Ansel Adams gelatin silver photograph
• Image Date: ca. 1939
• Print Date: 1960
• Signed: "Ansel Adams"
• Print Size: approx. 8"x10", overmat size 16"x20"
• Print Condition: Very Good
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity from The Ansel Adams Gallery
  

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Early prints of this image were simply titled "Autumn, Yosemite". Interestingly, Adams printed this image very differently over the course of making Portfolio Three in 1959/1960. Most people are familiar with the later printing style, darker, more dramatic, with emphasis on the cliffs. This print is reminiscent of the earlier style, lighter, with more emphasis on the trees and autumn leaves.

Portfolio Three, "Yosemite Valley",was produced in 1960 with the Sierra Club in an edition of 208 with 16 prints in each.

This was Adams‘ first portfolio in 10 years, and comprises many of his most well known photographs of Yosemite. He states his love for the valley, shared by millions today, very eloquently:

   "YOSEMITE VALLEY, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters...
   Who can define the moods of the wild places, the meaning of nature in domains beyond those of material use? Here are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

   Perhaps age must remember the clear perceptions of youth and return to the sensing of freshness, of strength, and of wonder; perhaps age needs to recall the beginnings of comprehension of mood and meaning and to rekindle an appreciation of the marvelous, of being in resonance with the world. If a man nurtures his sensitive awareness of the natural world with experience and contemplation, his spirit will remain young.

   In these sixteen photographs are many deep echoes of experience from more than forty years in Yosemite Valley. Each represents, for me, a moment of wonder. The pictures are put together as a continual pattern of personal mood and response; they do not attempt a complete pictorial exposition of Yosemite...This collection is, in a way, a personal autobiography in photographic images, the selection of which is based on emotional impulse and personal experience rather than on intellectual or historical judgment.

   Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him - and help him comprehend man's continuing need for that world."

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