Ansel Adams (84 page)

 
28
       Ansel confessed to me his great bewilderment at the Lands’ canceling the museum; he was too embarrassed to ask them for an explanation.

 
               
Terre Land was the financial sponsor of twenty-one of the twenty-six interviews conducted in 1972–1975 for Ansel’s oral history, on behalf of The Bancroft Library, University of California. The Sierra Club paid for the remaining five interviews. Ruth Teiser, “Remembering Ansel Adams,”
Bancroftiana
99 (Berkeley: University of California, October 1989): 2. For many years the imperious Terre Land would “winter” in a suite of rooms at the Arizona Inn in Tucson. Virginia was expected to accompany her, tucked into one small rom as an apparent lady-in-waiting. Virginia resented the entire situation, but Ansel would remind her that she had no choice.

 
29
       Edwin Land to Ansel Adams, quoted in Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds.,
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916–1984
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 374.

 
30
       Ansel Adams to Edwin Land, September 22–27 and October 2, 1983, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 383–384.

 
31
       Wensberg
, Land’s Polaroid
, 223–241.

 
32
       “Dr. Edwin Land, Photography Pioneer 1909–1991,”
International Photography Hall of Fame & Museum Bulletin
7, no. 2 (spring 1991): 1.

 
33
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 375.

 
34
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 341.

 
35
       Ibid.

 
36
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 376.

 
37
       A. Adams,
Examples
, 132–135.

 
38
       Donald W. Olson, “Yosemite Moonrises and Moonbows,”
Celestial Sleuth, Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature
(New York: Springer Praxis, 2013), 113–143.

 
39
       Ansel Adams to Din and Terre Land, April 10, 1959, quoted in A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 298.

 
40
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 501.

 
41
       Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, July 8, 1962, CCP.

 
42
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 537, 721.

 
43
       Clark Kerr, “The Yosemite of Higher Education,” in Melinda Wortz,
Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux
(Irvine, Calif.: Regents of the University of California, 1991), 12; Liliane De Cock, “Working with Ansel on
Fiat Lux
,” ibid., 30.

 
44
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 70.

 
45
       Lloyd Eric and Alice Means Reeve, with photographs by Ansel Adams and Pirkle Jones,
Gift of the Grape, Based on Paul Masson Vineyards
(San Francisco: Filmer Publishing Company, 1959).

 
46
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 70, 518; A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 298.
Portfolio Three
was sponsored by the Sierra Club, and
Portfolio Four
by the Varian Foundation in memory of its cofounder Russell Varian with the proceeds to benefit Castle Rock State Park.

 
47
       Don Worth, interview with the author, September 20, 1995.

 
48
       After 47: Gretchen Garner,
Gerry Sharpe, Sun and Shade: A Photographer’s Story
(Columbus, Ohio: Gretchen Garner, 2012).

 
49
       Ibid.

 
50
       Liliane De Cock, interview with the author, September 20, 1995; Dorothea Lange, “The Making of a Documentary Photographer,” an oral history conducted 1960–1961 by Suzanne B. Reiss, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1968, 299.

 
51
       Don Worth interview.

 
52
       Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, April 10, 1962, CCP.

 
53
       Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, November 1, 1961, CCP.

 
54
       Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, August 5, 1961, CCP; Don Worth interview.

 
55
       Stewart McBride, “Ansel,”
American Photographer
4, no. 6 (December 1980): 59.

 
56
       Anne Adams Helms,
The Descendants of David Best and Jane Eliza King Best
(Monterey, Calif.: Anne Adams Helms, 1995), 70–76; and Anne Adams Helms,
The Descendants of William James Adams and Cassandra Hills Adams
(Salinas, Calif.: Anne Adams Helms, 1999), 213–216.

 
57
       Ibid., 77–91.

 
58
       Garner,
Gerry Sharpe, Sun and Shade
.

 
59
       Liliane De Cock interview.

 
60
       Ibid.

 
61
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 261–262. Another version is recounted in McBride, “Ansel,” 59.

18. MORTAL COMBAT

 
1
       David Brower,
For Earth’s Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower
(Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1990), 258.

 
2
       Ibid.

 
3
       
Sierra Club Bulletin
, handbook edition, December 1967, 54–55.

 
4
       Robert Cahn, “Ansel Adams, Environmentalist,”
Sierra
, May–June 1979, 36, 45.

 
5
       Paul Strand with Nancy Newhall,
Time in New England
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1950).

 
6
       Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 215.

 
7
       David Featherstone, “This Is the American Earth: A Collaboration by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,” in Michael Read, ed.,
Ansel Adams: New Light
(San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 1993), 62–73.

 
8
       Ibid., 72–73.

 
9
       Ibid., 63, 68, 69; Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
This Is the American Earth
(San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960).

 
10
       Edward Steichen,
A Life in Photography
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963), unpaginated.

 
11
       Edward Steichen,
The Family of Man
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1955).

 
12
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 209–210.

 
13
       Brett Weston to Nancy Newhall, March 5, 1955, quoted in Featherstone, “This Is the American Earth,” 67.

 
14
       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, 476.

 
15
       Alfred Runte,
Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness
(Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990), 196.

 
16
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 154–156; Ansel Adams to Harold Bradley, Richard Leonard, and David Brower, July 27, 1957, in Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds.,
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916–1984
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 246–249; Ansel Adams to Fred Seaton, Sinclair Weeks, and Conrad Wirth, July 7, 1958, ibid., 251; Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, July 11, 1958, ibid., 251–252.

 
17
       Ansel Adams, “Tenaya Tragedy,”
Sierra Club Bulletin
, November 1958, 1–4 and photo insert.

 
18
       Tom Turner,
Sierra Club: 100 Years of Protecting Nature
(New York: Abrams, Inc., 1991), 186–190.

 
19
       Ibid.

 
20
       Michael P. Cohen,
The History of the Sierra Club
(San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988), 339–345.

 
21
       Ibid.; Ansel Adams to Phil Berry, president, the Sierra Club, April 27, 1969, The Bancroft Library, University of California.

 
22
       Tom Turner,
Wild by Law
(San Francisco: Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, 1990), 3–23.

 
23
       Cohen,
History of the Sierra Club
, 357–365.

 
24
       Montgomery Brower, “David Brower,”
People
, April 30, 1990, 103–106.

 
25
       Ibid.

 
26
       Turner,
The Sierra Club: 100 Years of Protecting Nature
, 178.

 
27
       Ansel Adams to Sierra Club, Attention: George Marshall & David Brower, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 292.

 
28
       Doris Leonard, interview with the author, September 11, 1995.

 
29
       Cohen,
History of the Sierra Club
, 124.

 
30
       Doris Leonard interview.

 
31
       Cohen,
History of the Sierra Club
, 423–434.

 
32
       Ibid., 423.

 
33
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 689; Cohen,
History of the Sierra Club
, 423.

 
34
       Richard Leonard, “Sierra Club White Paper,” undated [probably October 1968], The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

 
35
       Ansel Adams to David Brower, November 9, 1966, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 293.

 
36
       Cohen,
History of the Sierra Club
, 421–422. Ansel had been calling for Brower’s removal as executive director for more than a year. Ansel Adams to the directors of the Sierra Club, February 15, 1967, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

 
37
       Cohen,
History of the Sierra Club
, 424–428.

 
38
       “Sierra Club Annual Organization Meeting May 3–4,”
Sierra Club Bulletin
54, no. 5 (May 1969): 3.

 
39
       John McPhee,
Encounters with the Archdruid
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971), 208–220.

 
40
       Marjorie Bridge Farquhar, “Pioneer Woman Rock Climber and Sierra Club Director,” an oral history conducted 1977 by Ann Lage, in “Sierra Club Women II,” Sierra Club History Committee, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1977, 45.

 
41
       Philip Hyde, “Ansel Adams,”
Sierra Club Bulletin
, October/November 1971, 20–21. Courtesy of Philip Hyde.

 
42
       Glen Martin, “In Defense of the Earth,”
San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
, Sunday Interview, May 7, 1995, 3.

 
43
       President Lyndon Johnson, in Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
A More Beautiful America
(New York: American Conservation Association, 1965).

 
44
       David and Victoria Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,”
Playboy
, May 1983, 82.