(1902-1984)

"Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California", 1944.

Gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard. Later printed, 1962

Image dimension 40 x 47.8 cm. Mount 56 x 63.5 cm.

Fully signed on the mount on the right below the image. Verso photographer stamp with address: ""Route 1, Box 181, Carmel, California", handwritten inscription.

Literature:
- Ansel Adams. Yosemite and the Range of Light. Boston, 1979 (ill. plate 99).
- Ansel Adams. Examples. The Making of 40 Photographs. Boston, 1983 (p. 162).
- Ansel Adams. An Autobiography, with Mary Street Alinder. London, 1985 (ill. p. 262; here titled "Winter Sunrise, The Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, California, 1944").
- Alexander Lee Nyerges. In Praise of Nature. Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West. Exhibition catalogue, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, 30.10.1999-2.01.2000, Dayton et al., 1999 (ill. cover, p. 171).

Provenance:
- Acquired on the market several years ago.
- French collection.

"Another of my best-known photographs was made while I worked at Manzanar - Winter, Sunrise, The Sierra Nevada, From Lone Pine, California. I had come to know the Owens Valley well and felt there was a photograph of the Sierra and Mount Whitney to be made near the little town of Lone Pine, some fifteen miles south of Manzanar. I made a number of efforts at different times of the day, but did not achieve the desired image deciding it must be made at sunrise." (Adams, 1985 p. 261-262).