ANSEL ADAMS Mullen [Zion National Park], ca. 1940, 7x9.2" gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1940, signed in pencil on mount recto below print, printed in green/red on card cover recto: Our Best Wishes For Christmas & The New Year / Terre and Edwin Land; printed in red on card cover verso: Mullen, photograph by Ansel Adams. Produced by 5 Associates, San Francisco.

Adams, Ansel (b.San Francisco, CA., Feb. 20, 1902 - d. Monterey CA., April 22,1984) the leading figure in photography in the twentieth century and the creator of the most famous art photograph in the history of photography, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 as well as hundreds of dramatic landscape images.

Adams helped establish the department of photography at New York City Museum of Modern Art and in the formation of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (1975).

Adams began consulting for Edwin Land and the Polaroid Corporation in the late 1940s. He wrote thousands of memos as he tested the film over a 20-year period and he created a large body of Polaroid prints as well as enlargements form Polaroid negatives.

Excellent. Minor wear. Edge wear. Print loosely attached. Interior of card, p. 3 far lower left, small smear.