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Ansel Adams
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park1927, printed 1980

Not on view
Black and white photograph looking steeply upward at a sheer granite cliff face with snow-covered slopes and conifers below, against a near-black sky

Ansel Adams, Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, 1927, printed 1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the artist in memory of Robin Cranston, digital image © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ansel Adams
Title
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1927, printed 1980
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 19 3/8 × 14 1/2 in. (49.21 × 36.83 cm) Primary support: 19 3/8 × 14 1/2 in. (49.21 × 36.83 cm) Secondary support: 27 7/8 × 21 15/16 in. (70.8 × 55.72 cm) Mat: 27 7/8 × 21 15/16 in. (70.8 × 55.72 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist in memory of Robin Cranston
Accession Number
M.80.100
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
Copyright
Photograph by Ansel Adams © 2015 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust