ADAM CLARK VROMAN Adam Clark Vroman Near Cibollitta Mesa, N.M. 1899 Platinum Print 5x8.1 in. title in Vroman's hand verso 970 in negative ASG# ACV/1299. Mesa is Cebollita Mesa

Vroman's photographs of Clouds are a high achievement of American photography in 1900, and in sentiment, tone set the basis for work 30 years later by Edward Weston and Paul Strand.

Provenance: M.R. Harned Collection

Photographer and Bookseller Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) was the leading photographer of the Pasadena, California Arroyo Culture. He was the first important American photographer to use platinum prints to emphasize modernist tones and abstraction. He was the key Western American photographer using modern techniques and materials on living tribes and current traditions, rather than working in cultural preservation of a vanishing race. His landscape work is every bit as emotional as the later landscape work of Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, and Paul Strand. In 1893 he moved to Pasadena and set up Vroman's Bookstore, still in operation, where he sold books as well as photography supplies. He photographed primarily in Arizona and New Mexico.

Andrew Smith Gallery has been the leading dealer and collector of Adam Clark Vroman since the first album if acquired in 1980. For a more detailed view of his life, work and materials:
https://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/misc/western/vroman.html

Excellent. Minor wear light discoloration verso