Original gelatin silver print. Photograph 1961, printed 1974. Signed to mount ‘Ansel Adams’. This work is number 296 (ccxcvi) from the first edition of 1000 published by New York Graphic Society, Ltd., Boston. Image: 12⅜ h × 9⅛ w in (31 × 23 cm); mount: 16½ h × 13½ w in (42 × 34 cm). 

Literature: Edwin Land, David H. McAlpin, Jon Holmes, and Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Singular Images (Dobbs Ferry, 1974), pl. 48; Ansel Adams and Robert Baker, Polaroid Land Photography (Boston, 1978), frontispiece, fig. 4-3, and p. 48; Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams (Boston, 1995), p. 47; Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 380

"Ansel Adams had a greater impact upon creative photography than any other person in this century." To Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Wallace Stegner, who authored the introduction to Adams' book Images 1923-1974, Adams' "mind and vision, his reverence, his delicacy and strength, will have the power to move and enhance and enlarge us as long as walls exist for photographs" (Miraculous Instants, 51-2). Adams "elevated the act of photography to a religious experience" (Stepan, 96).