Inv. No.S-0397
Title
from Portfolio V, pl. 6"Petroglyphs, Monument Valley, Utah"
Year1958, vintage
Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard
Dimensions39 x 50 cm
Edition92/110
Signature
signed and numbered (pencil) on mount recto;
titled, dated (ink) and publishing stamp (Parasol Press) on mount verso
Comment
As Ansel Adams wrote in his letter to Nancy Newhall from 26. 8.1970: "This new portfolio I am doing will confound the critics, disturb my conventional audience and perplex the ,[Minor]White mystics’." (Ansel Adams, Letters and Images 1916–1984, New York Graphic Society, 1988, S. 306), one is irritated by the two levels: the one of the weathered
rocks and the other of the nearly 1000 years old rock carvings of the Anasazi Indians. Fritz Simak