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LETTERS
From Virginia Adams: Christmas 1926; August 2, 1933. Courtesy of Virginia Adams.
From Vladimir Ashkenazy: October 19, 1983. Courtesy of Vladimir Ashkenazy.
From Bill Brandt: September 15,
1977. Permission from the estate of Bill Brandt. Courtesy of Noya Brandt.
From David Brower: September 27, 1956. Courtesy of David R. Brower.
From President Jimmy Carter:
November 9, 1979; February 15, 1980; August 25, 1980. Courtesy of the Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, Georgia.
From Senator Alan Cranston: June 28, 1983. Courtesy of Alan Cranston.
From Peter Griffin: May 1983. Courtesy of Peter Griffin.
From Philippe Halsman: December 1, 1947. Courtesy of Yvonne Halsman.
From Edwin Land: February 20,
1982. Courtesy of Edwin Land.
From David McAlpin: September 7, 1940. Courtesy of David Hunter McAlpin.
From Beaumont Newhall: February 7, 1939; September 17, 1940; New Year’s Day, 1941; June 3, 1942; February 27, 1944; March 7, 1946; March 18, 1948; March 4, 1951; August 4, 1951; July 13, i960; July 1, 1974; March 23, 1977. Copyright © 1985 by Beaumont Newhall. Courtesy of Beaumont Newhall.
From Beaumont and Nancy Newhall: December 31, 1948; Late June, 1949. Copyright © 1985 by Beaumont Newhall and the estate of Nancy Newhall. Courtesy of Beaumont Newhall and the estate of Nancy Newhall.
From Nancy Newhall: July 15, 1946; July 16, 1946; May 7, 1948; June 18, 1948; September 8, 1948; Christmas Day, 1948; October 24, 1958;January 29, 1961; February 28, 1961; November 14, 1967; September 1970; June 28, 1972; September 17, 1973; May 17, 1974. Copyright © 1985 by the estate of Nancy Newhall. Courtesy of Beaumont Newhall.
From Nancy Newhall and Ansel Adams: June 11, 1944. Copyright © 1985 by the estate of Nancy Newhall and by the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Courtesy of the estate of Nancy Newhall and the Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
From Marion Patterson: September 17, 1972. Courtesy of Marion Patterson.
From Alfred Stieglitz: June 28, 1933; October 20, 1933; December 7, 1933; June 9, 1934; May 13,
1935; July 30, 1936; December 16, 1936; December 1937; December 21, 1938; July 25, 1940; August 8, 1943; November 5, 1943; July 4, 1944; July 23, 1945; April 15, 1946. By permission of the Stieglitz-O’Kceffe Archive, Collection of American Literature, Bcinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
From Paul Strand: October 14, 1933; March 21, 1949. Courtesy of
Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive.
From John Szarkowski: October 19, 1962; June 28, 1976; Early March 1979; March 10, 1979. Courtesy of John Szarkowski.
From Arthur Thornhill, Jr.: June 3, 1981. Courtesy of Arthur Thornhill, Jr.
From Garry Trudeau: September 3, 1981. Courtesy of Garry Trudeau.
From Brett Weston: 1940; July 22, 1955; July 25, 1955. Courtesy of Brett Weston.
From Edward Weston: January 28, 1932; December 3, 1934; Late May or early June 1937; 1937; January 9, 1945; September 1945; October 1945; November 1945; December 1, 1945; March or April 1946; April 12, 1946; April 1948; November 29, 1949. Courtesy of the Ansel Adams Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Ansel Adams: Anne Adams in Bonnet, 1933. Reproduction print courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Tree, Point Arena, California, 1961. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Virginia Best Adams and Polaroid Corporation, 1986 (198601042).
Jim Alindcr: Ansel Adams at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Jim Alinder.
Bill Brandt: Camden Hill (Seated
Nude), London, 1949. Copyright © by Mrs. Noya Brandt. Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago.
Dorothea Lange: White Angel Breadline, 1933. Copyright © 1983 by The City of Oakland, The Oakland Museum. Courtesy of the Dorothea Lange Collection.
Nancy Newhall: Ansel Adams, i960; Ansel and Virginia Adams, West- port, California, c. 1930. Copyright © 1988 by the estate of Nancy Newhall.
John Sexton: Ansel and Virginia Adams at the exhibition “Ansel Adams and the West,” Museum of Modern Art, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by John Sexton.
Alfred Stieghtz: Songs of the Sky, 1923 (Equivalent), by Alfred Stieglitz. Courtesy of The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, the National Gallery of Art.
Paul Strand: Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1931. Copyright © 1971, Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive.
Garry Trudeau: Cartoon of Ansel
Adams in Yosemite. Courtesy of Garry Trudeau.
Edward Weston: Ansel Adams, Wildcat Hill, Carmel Highlands, California, 1943 ; Pepper # 30, 1930 ; Surf,
China Cove, Point Lobos State Reserve, 1940. Photographs by Edward Weston. Copyright © 1981 by the Arizona Board of Regents, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.
Cedric Wright: Ansel Adams Cooking on Tailgate of Helios IV, June 1949; Ansel Adams with Mustache, Yosemite National Park, c. 1923. Courtesy of the Cedric Wright family.