Dogwood, Yosemite Valley
Artist: Ansel Easton Adams (American, 1902-1984)
Date: 1938, printed 1971
Dimensions:
image: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (23.5 x 15.9 cm)
mount: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Medium: Gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by an anonymous donor
Object number: 1971.170
Label Text:Ansel Adams may be most well-known for his photographs of grand landscapes, but he was also fascinated with turning his camera to the details in nature. The creative photographers of the early twentieth century were known for close-up shots and he followed suit. He wrote poetically in his autobiography, "One can never assert the superiority ... of torrents swollen by the floods of spring against the quiescent scintillations of an autumn stream."
Adams admired and often quoted the American poet Walt Whitman who shared his tendency to look for beauty in small and unassuming places as well as in the grand and dramatic.
"These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place." (from "Miracles," by Walt Whitman)
Adams admired and often quoted the American poet Walt Whitman who shared his tendency to look for beauty in small and unassuming places as well as in the grand and dramatic.
"These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place." (from "Miracles," by Walt Whitman)
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