ANSEL ADAMS The Enchanted Mesa [Acoma, New Mexico] 1930 Ca. Signed Gelatin Silver Print Adams called this a Parmelian Print 5.125x7.37 in. on paper 10 x 12 in. ASG# AA/2875 Numbered 258 Signed under the print right with original vellum letterpress wrapper

Adams has emphasized the angular aspects of a nearly cloudless sky with the shadow on the right side of the mesa form showing a mass similar to his famous view, Monolith, Face of Half, Dome, Yosemite National Park, California 1927

Adams termed a group of prints Parmelian prints in the late 1920s giving a fancy mane to prints thinking it would enhance their sales. He later regretted this.

Andrew Smith Gallery has sold over 1200 original Ansel Adams original prints.

Adams, Ansel (b. San Francisco, CA., USA Feb. 20, 1902; - d. Monterey CA., April 22,1984.) is the leading figure in photography in the twentieth century and the creator of the most famous art photograph in the history of photography, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 as well as hundreds of dramatic landscape images.

His attraction to the beauty of the natural world and art was both instinctive and part and parcel of his childhood. Adams joined the Sierra Club in 1920. He found his true community among its members. Through the Sierra Club he grew interested in mountaineering and conservation, serving as a director from 1934-1971.

In the 1920s he practiced the style of Pictorialism, but by the time he helped found Group f/64 in 1932 he was dedicated to promoting the straight, unmanipulated photograph as an art form. He met Alfred Stieglitz in New York in 1933 and was given a one-man show in 1936 at An American Place.

Adams subsequently helped establish the department of photography at New York City's Museum of Modem Art and in the formation of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (1975).

Provenance: Sotheby's Oct 7, 2010.

Excellent. Minor wear, minor wear to folder