ANSEL ADAMS, Iron Graver Marker Monterey, Ca., 1962, 13.3x16.6" gelatin silver print, Printed , signed in pencil on mount recto below print, stamped in ink on mount verso: Polaroid Land / Photograph / By / Ansel Adams; bar code label; stamped in ink and completed by hand: Polaroid Collection / Photograph by Ansel Adams / Print No. 3 / Box No. L-1; inscribed in ink: Print F "L" / Memo [1286A crossed out] 1268A

The memo number refers to one of thousands of memos (each numbered) that Adams prepared for Edwin Land as a consultant. The consulting began in the late 1940s and was active for over 25 years.

The image is typical of the kinds of Cemetery abstractions he began making in the early 1930s, about the time he moved from a pictorialist view of photography to a modernist view.

Ansel Adams (b. San Francisco, CA, Feb. 20, 1902 - d. Monterey CA, April 22, 1984) is 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.

His attraction to the beauty of the natural world and art was both instinctive and part and parcel of his childhood. Adams joined the Sierra Club in 1920 where he found his true community among its members. Through the Sierra Club he grew interested in mountaineering and conservation, serving as a director from 1934-1971.

Good to Very Good. Mild surface wear and abrasions. Upper right edge has one-half inch scratch