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Ansel Adams
The Museum Set1979

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Black and white photograph looking steeply up at a sheer granite cliff face, with dramatic high-contrast lighting, a near-black sky, and snow-covered slopes below
Gelatin silver print landscape of a forest stream, with tall dark tree trunks rising from a sunlit rocky bank; high contrast between deep shadows and bright highlights on boulders and foliage, with still water reflecting the treeline in the foreground.
Gelatin silver print of a stark desert rock formation under a black sky, with a small silhouetted figure at lower left and a half-lit moon visible in the upper right.
Gelatin silver print, close-up of gnarled, deeply textured cypress tree trunks in the foreground, with fog-softened cypress trees and boulders visible in the misty background.
Black and white landscape photograph of a massive granite cliff face rising behind deciduous trees and conifers, reflected in a calm river in the foreground, with high tonal contrast between bright foliage and dark rock.
Gelatin silver print of a tall waterfall descending a sheer granite cliff face, with mist billowing outward at the base; silhouetted conifers and bare deciduous trees frame the foreground, rendered in deep blacks and luminous whites with strong tonal contrast.
Gelatin silver print of a tall waterfall descending a sheer granite cliff face, with mist rising from boulders below; dark conifer trees silhouetted at right against the rock face, dramatic contrast between luminous white water and deep shadow.
Gelatin silver print of a geyser eruption, a towering column of white steam and water billowing upward against a dark sky, with a low mounded silhouette at the base.
Gelatin silver print landscape of a deep canyon with layered sandstone walls, a winding river curving through the canyon floor in the middle distance, striated rock formations in the foreground, and a dramatic cloudy sky above the canyon rim.
Gelatin silver print landscape of a granite mountain face rising steeply at left above a calm lake, with conifer trees along the shoreline, distant peaks at right, and billowing cumulus clouds filling the upper sky; high contrast with deep shadows on the rock face.
Gelatin silver print landscape of a wide, calm lake reflecting dramatic cloud formations. Bare, twisted branches in the lower foreground, with a low ridge of hills along the distant horizon.
Gelatin silver print landscape of a tall waterfall cascading down a sheer granite cliff face, framed by bare deciduous trees in the foreground, with fine tonal gradations from brilliant white water to deep shadowed rock.
Artist or Maker
Ansel Adams
United States, 1902-1984
Title
The Museum Set
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1979
Medium
Gelatin-silver prints
Dimensions
Image (each): 19 5/16 × 14 7/16 in. (49.05 × 36.67 cm) Primary support (each): 19 5/16 × 14 7/16 in. (49.05 × 36.67 cm) Secondary support (each): 28 × 22 in. (71.12 × 55.88 cm) Overall: 28 13/16 × 22 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (73.18 × 57.79 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Sue and Albert Dorskind
Accession Number
AC1996.165.1-.13
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography