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Ansel Adams
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico1941, printed 1948

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Picturing the American West
Black and white landscape photograph of a desert village with a white adobe church, a cemetery with white crosses, snow-capped mountains, and a full moon in a dark sky
Artist or Maker
Ansel Adams
Title
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1941, printed 1948
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 15 × 18 1/2 in. (38.1 × 46.99 cm) Primary support: 15 × 18 1/2 in. (38.1 × 46.99 cm) Mat: 28 × 32 in. (71.12 × 81.28 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation and Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.56
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.

Copyright
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust