El Capitan, Yosemite National Park

Ansel Adams, Printed by Alan Ross

1950

  • Titles El Capitan, Yosemite National Park (Proper)
  • Artist Ansel Adams, American, 1902 - 1984
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions photograph: 9 3/8 × 7 1/16 in. (23.8 × 17.9 cm) mounting paper: 16 3/8 × 13 1/2 in. (41.6 × 34.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.70.2013, image © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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