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Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, California
Creator
Ansel AdamsAmerican Photographer · 1902–1984
All works by this person →Ansel Adams was first trained in music, but in 1930 he gave up a career as a concert pianist to pursue photography. Although he began his career as a Pictorialist, Adams soon became an advocate of the sharp-focus, unmanipulated image. Along with Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and others, he was one of the cofounders of Group f/64. The name derived from the smallest aperture of the camera lens, w
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- negative 1948; print 1981
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- a2ac5a29-2a17-4e68-9ade-4fdd699b2bee
Sand dunes with strong contrasts between sun and shade.
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