Ansel Adams (77 page)

 
57
       Ansel Adams to Donald B. Tresidder, November 21, 1938, YNPRL.

 
58
       Tresidder to Plumb, August 15, 1938, YNPRL.

 
59
       Photographed by Ansel Adams, Edited by Stanley Plumb,
The Four Seasons in Yosemite National Park: A Photographic Story of Yosemite’s Spectacular Scenery
(Yosemite: Yosemite Park and Curry Company, 1936).

 
60
       Ansel Adams, witnessed by Virginia Adams, to Donald B. Tresidder, April 25, 1939, YNPRL.

 
61
       Eliot Porter,
Eliot Porter
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1987), 27.

 
62
       Ibid., 30. Three of Porter’s photographs that were exhibited at An American Place are reproduced on pages 28, 29, and 31.

 
63
       Andrea Gray,
Ansel Adams: An American Place
,
1936
(Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1982), 32.

 
64
       David McAlpin to Alfred Stieglitz, January 7, 1939, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

 
65
       Nancy Newhall, “Alfred Stieglitz: Notes for a Biography,” in
From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography
(New York: Aperture, 1989).

10. FRIENDS

 
1
       Nancy Newhall,
The Eloquent Light
(Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1980), 131.

 
2
       Beaumont Newhall,
Focus: A Life in Photography
(Boston: Bulfinch Press, 19 93), 20–39.

 
3
       Ibid., 45.

 
4
       Beaumont Newhall,
Photography 1839
–
1937
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1937), 11–27.

 
5
       Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport,
Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography, a True Story of Genius and Rivalry
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014).

 
6
       B. Newhall,
Focus
, 34–37.

 
7
       Ibid., 46–47.

 
8
       Analysis of the checklist
of Photography 1839
–
1937.

 
9
       Beaumont Newhall to Ansel Adams, January 3, 1937, CCP; N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 131.

 
10
       B. Newhall,
Focus
, 45.

 
11
       Excerpt from review of exhibition by Edward Alden Jewell, in B. Newhall,
Focus
, 51.

 
12
       Henry McBride, review in
New York Sun
, in B. Newhall,
Focus
, 52–53.

 
13
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 136; Ansel Adams, “The New Expanding Photographic Universe,” in Willard D. Morgan and Henry M. Lester, eds.,
Miniature Camera Work
(New York: Morgan & Lester, 1938), 69–75.

 
14
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 134–135.

 
15
       Francis P. Farquhar, foreword to the first edition, and Richard M. Leonard, “Walter A. Starr, Sr.,” in Walter A. Starr, Jr.,
Starr’s Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region
(San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1974).

 
16
       Ansel Adams to Patsy English, July 19, 1937, CCP.

 
17
       Charis Wilson Weston and Edward Weston,
California and the West
(New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940), 13. This is an account of their Guggenheim travels, text by Charis and photographs by Edward.

 
18
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 136.

 
19
       “Notes on Art,”
San Francisco Examiner
, August 15, 1937, E5.

 
20
       Rondal Partridge, interviews with the author, March 25, 1988, and November 13, 1995. Partridge was Ansel’s photographic assistant from 1937 to 1939.

 
21
       Ansel Adams to Arno B. Cammerer, Director, National Park Service, May 29, 1937, Yosemite National Park Research Library.

 
22
       C. and E. Weston,
California and the West
, 59.

 
23
       Ibid., 60–61. Courtesy of Charis Wilson.

 
24
       Edward Weston,
Charis
,
Lake Ediza
, reproduced as a plate between pages 48 and 49 of
California and the West.

 
25
       Ansel Adams,
Detail
,
Devil’s Postpile
, Ansel Adams,
Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail
(Berkeley: Archetype Press, 1938), plate xiii.

 
26
       C. and E. Weston,
California and the West
, 64. Courtesy of Charis Wilson.

 
27
       Ibid., 65–66.

 
28
       Rondal Partridge interviews.

 
29
       Ibid.

 
30
       C. and E. Weston,
California and the West
, 66. Courtesy of Charis Wilson.

 
31
       Edward Weston to Ansel Adams [1937], Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds.,
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images
,
1916
–
1984
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 104. Ansel Adams Archive. Collection Center for Creative Photography © 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.

 
32
       Rondal Partridge interviews.

 
33
       Ibid.

 
34
       Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, April 15, 1961, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 273.

 
35
       Ansel Adams to Mr. Charles Nagel, Director, City Art Museum, St. Louis, July 27, 1945. Collection of City Art Museum of St. Louis.

 
36
       Dr. Donald W. Olson to Mary Alinder and Mary Alinder to Don Olson, a number of e-mails including May 2, 2010. Meteorological Record: December 1935, Yosemite Station. Donald W. Olson,
Celestial Sleuth, Using Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History and Literature
(New York and Heidelberg: Springer Praxis Books, 2014 edition). I highly recommend this book and will always be indebted to Dr. Olson for his unique research on the photographs of Ansel Adams.

 
37
       Ansel Adams to Alfred Stieglitz, September 21, 1937, ibid., 98.

 
38
       Sarah Greenough, ed.,
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz, Volume I, 1915–1933
(New Haven:Yale University Press, 2011); Roxana Robinson,
Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
(New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989), 406–429.

 
39
       Ansel Adams to Alfred Stieglitz, September 21, 1937, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 98.

 
40
       Ansel Adams to Patsy English, September 22, 1937, CCP.

 
41
       Robinson,
Georgia O’Keeffe
, 417.

 
42
       Ansel Adams,
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1983), 152–157.
Georgia O’Keeffe and Orville Cox
is reproduced on page 152.

 
43
       The 35mm proof sheet is reproduced in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 99.

 
44
       Ansel Adams,
Aspens
,
Dawn
,
Dolores River Canyon
, Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 196, 234.

 
45
       Georgia O’Keeffe to William Einstein, July 19, 1938, in Jack Coward and Juan Hamilton, with letters selected and annotated by Sarah Greenough,
Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters
(Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1987), 224, 226.

 
46
       Ansel Adams to David McAlpin, April 4, 1938, CCP.

 
47
       Ansel Adams to Alfred Stieglitz, March 15, 1938, CCP.

 
48
       Nancy Newhall, “The Enduring Moment” [unpublished manuscript draft for the proposed second volume of her biography of Ansel Adams], 145. Beaumont Newhall provided the author with a copy of the manuscript.

 
49
       Ansel Adams to David McAlpin, July 11, 1938, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 104–107.

 
50
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 154.

 
51
       Michael Robertson, “Beaux Arts Ball: Time to Celebrate City’s Life and Joy,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 7, 1989.

 
52
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 150.

 
53
       “Architectural Masquerade,”
Northern California Home & Garden
, November 1990, 48–50.

 
54
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 150.

 
55
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 185.

 
56
       Handwritten notes by Nancy Newhall for
The Eloquent Light
, CCP.

 
57
       Ansel Adams to Alfred Stieglitz, July 30, 1938, CCP.

 
58
       Ansel Adams to Georgia O’Keeffe, July 30, 1938, CCP.

 
59
       Ansel Adams to Patsy English, July 13, 1938, CCP.

 
60
       David Hunter McAlpin, “Photographic Experiences with Ansel Adams,” in Ansel Adams,
Singular Images
(Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974), unpaginated.

 
61
       Ansel Adams to Alfred Stieglitz, September 10, 1938, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 107–108.

 
62
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 228–230.

 
63
       McAlpin, “Photographic Experiences with Ansel Adams.”

 
64
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 229–230.

 
65
       Ibid., 231.

 
66
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 163.

 
67
       Ansel Adams, “Conversations with Ansel Adams,” an oral history conducted 1972, 1974, 1975 by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1978, 570.

 
68
       “Ansel Adams Speaks at League!”
photo notes
(Photo League, December 1940), 3.

 
69
       Ansel Adams, “Letter to the Editor,”
U.S. Camera
11 (October 1940): 9.

 
70
       Ansel Adams to Georgia O’Keeffe, November 11, 1938, CCP; Ansel Adams to Edward Weston [November 1938], CCP; Ansel Adams to David McAlpin, November 4, 1938, CCP.

 
71
       N. Newhall,
Eloquent Light
, 162.

 
72
       Wilder Bentley, “Photography and the Fine Book,”
U.S. Camera
14 (February 1941): 67–68, 72.