Ansel Adams (80 page)

 
30
       Ansel Adams, “Information on Professional Work,” 1967, CCP. A check of catalogs and price lists over the years from such businesses as the Witkin Gallery, LIGHT gallery, Graphics International, the Weston Gallery, Carl Siembab Gallery, Grapestake, the Ansel Adams Gallery, G. Ray Hawkins, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Swann, and Butterfield & Butterfield yielded this information.

 
31
       “Pictures Are Worth More Than Just Words,”
World Business Weekly
, December 15, 1980, 46–47.

 
32
       Cynthia Salzman, “Photograph Market Retreats from Highs; Even Ansel Adams’s Work Is Vulnerable,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 1981.

 
33
       Sean Callahan, “Countdown to Moonrise,”
American Photographer
, January 1981, 30–31.

 
34
       Dennis di Cicco, “Dating Ansel Adams’
Moonrise,
”
Sky & Telescope
82, no. 5 (1991): 531.

 
35
       Allan Parachini, “The Disputed Legacy of Ansel Adams: Someone Could Also Ask, Who Owns ‘Moonrise’?”
Los Angeles Times
, June 5, 1989, section 6, 1, 12.

 
36
       Ansel Adams to Mr. E. K. Burlew, First Asst. Secretary, and Mr. Newton Drury, Director of the National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, March 4, 1942. YNPRL; Ansel Adams to E. K. Burlew, August 18, 1942, YNPRL; E. K. Burlew to Ansel Adams, September 30, 1942, YNPRL.

 
37
       Ansel Adams to E. K. Burlew, August 18, 1942, YNPRL.

 
38
       E. K. Burlew to Ansel Adams, September 30, 1942, YNPRL.

 
39
       Of the eighty-six pictures reproduced in Peter Wright and John Armor,
The Mural Project
(Santa Barbara: Reverie Press, 1989), plate 84,
North Palisade from Windy Point, Kings River Canyon, California;
plate 92,
Junction Peak, Kings River Canyon, California;
plate 100,
Roaring River, Kings Region, Kings River Canyon, California;
plate 106,
Clouds—White Pass, Kings River Canyon, California;
and plate 107,
Kearsarge Pinnacles, Kings River Canyon, California
were made well before Ansel was employed by the Department of the Interior.

 
40
       Allan Parachini, Los Angeles Times Service, “Document Says Adams Gave U.S. Wrong Information on Negatives,”
Monterey
(Calif.)
Sunday Herald
, June 18, 1989, 9A.

 
41
       Ansel Adams, “Statement of Time, Etc. Devoted to the Photographic Mural Project, Department of the Interior Appointment, Ansel Adams, Yosemite, October 14th through November 29th, 1941,” submitted December 2, 1941, YNPRL.

 
42
       David Roybal, “Ansel Adams Gives ‘Moonrise’ to Hernandez,”
New Mexican
, June 12, 1980.

 
43
       Ibid.

 
44
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 191.

14. GUGGENHEIM YEARS

 
1
       Nancy Newhall, “The Enduring Moment” [unpublished manuscript], 297.

 
2
       Ibid., 312–313.

 
3
       Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, Wednesday, [mid-July] 1945, CCP.

 
4
       Ansel Adams to Edward Weston, September 19, 1945, in Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds.,
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916–1984
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1985), 161. A short excerpt from Edward’s letter of response is reproduced in Amy Conger,
Edward Weston: Photographs
(Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1992), 41.

 
5
       Ansel Adams,
Natural-Light Photography
(New York: Morgan and Morgan, 1952), pl. 38.

 
6
       Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, November 25, 1945, CCP.

 
7
       Doris Leonard, interview with the author, September 11, 1995.

 
8
       My conclusions are based on many interviews with a number of Ansel’s compatriots, including some of the “women in his life.”

 
9
       Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, July 15, 1944, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 152.

 
10
       This person asked to remain anonymous.

 
11
       Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 323–324.

 
12
       Peter C. Bunnell,
Minor White: The Eye That Shapes
(Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1989), 5.

 
13
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 317.

 
14
       Beaumont Newhall,
Focus: A Life in Photography
(Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1993), 153.

 
15
       Pirkle Jones, interview with the author, September 12, 1995.

 
16
       Ruth Marion Baruch, interview with the author, September 12, 1995.

 
17
       Pirkle Jones interview.

 
18
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 382–384.

 
19
       Ansel Adams to the Guggenheim Foundation, November 13, 1933, Sandra S. Phillips, “Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange: A Friendship of Differences,” in Michael Read, ed.,
Ansel Adams: New Light
(San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1993), 54.

 
20
       Liliane De Cock, interview with the author, September 20, 1995.

 
21
       Nancy Newhall,
From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography
(New York: Aperture, 1989), 93–95.

 
22
       Bunnell,
Minor White
, 16.

 
23
       Pirkle Jones interview.

 
24
       Richard Whelan,
Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1995), 572.

 
25
       Nancy Newhall to Ansel Adams, July 15, 1946, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 175–177.

 
26
       Sue Davidson Lowe,
Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983), 377–378.

 
27
       Walt Whitman, “For Him I Sing,” in
Leaves of Grass: The Complete Poems
(Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1986), 43.

 
28
       Ansel Adams, “Conversations with Ansel Adams,” an oral history conducted 1972, 1974, 1975 by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1978, 565.

 
29
       Charis Wilson,
Through Another Lens
(New York: North Point Press, 1999). Charis finalized her divorce from Edward on December 13, 1946, and was married the next day by the same judge in Nevada who had issued her divorce papers; Conger,
Edward Weston: Photographs
, 41.

 
30
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 781.

 
31
       Conger,
Edward Weston: Photographs
, fig. 1826/1948.

 
32
       Edward Weston,
My Camera on Point Lobos
(Yosemite National Park: Virginia Adams, 1950).

 
33
       Conger,
Edward Weston: Photographs
, 43.

 
34
       Edward Weston to Ansel Adams, Virginia [Adams], Dody [Thompson], “in fact all concerned with ‘my C[amera] O[n] P[oint] L[obos],’” May 8, 1950, quoted in Conger,
Edward Weston: Photographs
, 43. Ansel Adams Archive. Collection Center for Creative Photography. © 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.

 
35
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 758–759. Two of Ansel’s books also suffered the same “remaindered” fate:
Yosemite and the High Sierra
and
The Land of Little Rain.
Teiser and Harroun,
Conversations with Ansel Adams
, 430. In 1968, DaCapo Press published a second edition.

 
36
       Conger,
Edward Weston: Photographs
, 43.

 
37
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 401, 442.

 
38
       Ibid., 405–08.

 
39
       “See Your West,” a series of twenty-five color photographic reproductions for 1946, at least two of which were by Ansel Adams; and “See Your West,” a series of fifty-four color photographic reproductions for 1947, nine by Ansel Adams.

 
40
       Ansel Adams to Francis Farquhar, February 16, 1947, in
Letters and Images
, 181–182.

 
41
       Ansel Adams to Newton Drury, February 26, 1947, quoted in N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 422, 426.

 
42
       B. Newhall,
Focus
, 154.

 
43
       Ansel Adams with Robert Baker, “Focusing Cloth,” in
The Camera
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1980), 174.

 
44
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 459.

 
45
       Ibid., 464–465.

 
46
       This was a favorite story often told by Ansel.

 
47
       B. Newhall,
Focus
, 185.

 
48
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 462.

 
49
       B. Newhall,
Focus
, 185. Copyright Beaumont Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate, courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 
50
       Ibid. Copyright Beaumont Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate, courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 
51
       Bernard De Voto, “The National Parks,”
Fortune
, June 1947, 120–135.

 
52
       
Time
, June 2, 1947.

 
53
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 527–528.

 
54
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 365.

 
55
       Ansel Adams to Virginia Adams, April 1948, quoted in N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 526–527.

 
56
       Ansel Adams and John Muir,
Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948).

 
57
       N. Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” 586–591.

 
58
       Don Worth, interview with the author, September 20, 1995.

 
59
       Ansel Adams to George and Betty Marshall, May 8, 1948, CCP. Ansel Adams to Edward Weston, April 10–14, 1948, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 190–192; Edward Weston to Ansel Adams, April 1948, ibid., 192.

 
60
       Ansel Adams,
The Crater of Haleakala, Clouds, Hawaii National Park, Maui, T.H.
, reproduced in
My Camera in the National Parks
(Yosemite National Park: Virginia Adams, 1950), pl. 26; Ansel Adams,
Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Island of Hawaii, from Haleakula, in Hawaii National Park, Maui
, in
The Islands of Hawaii
(Honolulu: Bishop National Bank, 1958), pl. 65.

 
61
       Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, June 20, 1948, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 195.