May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 367

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
ADAMS, ANSEL (1902-1984)
"White Sands, National Monument, New Mexico." Silver print, 7 1/4x9 1/2 inches (18.4x24.1 cm.), with Ansel Adams's San Francisco and "My Camera in the National Parks" hand stamps; and a Harper's Bazaar and title hand stamp on verso. Circa 1942; printed 1950s

Additional Details

A Harper's Bazaar hand stamp indicates this photograph was used in the December 1960 issue featuring "Thomas Merton--Desert."
From the estate of Ray Roberts, who worked with Ansel Adams on his autobiography while he was a senior editor at Little, Brown and Company.
Ansel Adams: Photographs of the Southwest, 28.