id:			147320
accession number:	1973.119
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.119
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:33.666000

The Black Sun, Tungsten Hills, Owens Valley, California, 1939 (printed late 1960s). Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). Gelatin silver print; image: 34.8 x 46.8 cm (13 11/16 x 18 7/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Wishing Well Fund 1973.119 © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

title:				The Black Sun, Tungsten Hills, Owens Valley, California
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creation date:			1939 (printed late 1960s)
creation date earliest:		1939
creation date latest:		1939
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creditline:			Wishing Well Fund
copyright:			© Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1900-1950
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984)  - artist
Ansel Adams American, 1902-1984

San Francisco-born Ansel Adams took his first photograph in 1916. More than a dozen years later (during which time he also trained as a concert pianist), he decided on photography as a career. A master of the natural landscape photograph, Adams became famous for his spectacular, reverential images of the American West. He also was known for his technical skill, conceiving the zone system method of exposure and development control.
	An advocate of straight, unmanipulated photography, in 1932 Adams cofounded Group f/64 (among the other founding members were Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and Willard Van Dyke), and that year exhibited his work with the group at San Francisco's M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. In 1936 his images were featured in a one-person exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's New York gallery, An American Place, and three years later he took part in group exhibitions at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1940 Adams helped found the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, and later in the decade was awarded two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to photograph America's national parks.
	Beginning in the 1930s and continuing throughout his long, productive career, Adams published numerous books and portfolios of his images. His technical books on photography, including Making a Photograph, Basic Photo Series, and Polaroid Land Photography Manual, were also popular. Adams was influential not only as a photographer but also as a teacher, lecturer, and conservationist. In 1980 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 34.8 x 46.8 cm (13 11/16 x 18 7/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "V-7 39/110 Ansel Adams [signed]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1973
	opening date:   1974-01-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1973</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

	title:		Ansel Adams: A Photographer’s Evolution
	opening date:   2018-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>Ansel Adams: A Photographer’s Evolution</i>. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 16, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA 1974: "Year in Review 1973," CMA Bulletin LXI (February 1974) no. 135, p. 77, repr. p. 55).', 'opening_date': '1974-02-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 1979: "Selections of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, October 15, 1993 - January 9, 1994: "Ansel Adams from the Permanent Collection," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1993-10-15T00:00:00'}

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 258
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n278

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 74
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