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Spring Rain, Yosemite

Alan Ross

Original Gelatin Silver Photograph by Alan Ross

Signed and numbered by artist

Mounted and overmatted with 4-ply archival museum board

Available in multiple print sizes

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$1,800.00
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About Artist

Alan Ross is an internationally respected master photographer and educator who expresses his unique vision with a combination of traditional photographic craftsmanship and today’s technology.  His tonally exquisite photographs take the viewer from the grandeur of the American West to the changing faces of China to abstractions created by the relationship of objects both natural and man-made. Each image is a pure visual and emotional response to subject matter, executed with an exacting eye and superior technical artistry.

Alan honed his vision and technique while working side-by-side with Ansel Adams in the field and in the darkroom as his full-time photographic assistant. He was integrally involved with Adams’ books, teaching in Yosemite and production of fine prints. Alan was personally selected by Adams to be the exclusive printer of the Yosemite Special Edition Photograph negatives, an assignment he has enjoyed for nearly 50 years. As such, Alan knows Ansel’s approach and technique perhaps better than any other photographer today.

In 1979, Alan left Ansel and Carmel to open a commercial photography studio in San Francisco, where he enjoyed working on projects ranging from world-wide campaigns for the Bank of America to landscape murals for the National Park Service.

He relocated to Santa Fe in 1993 and enjoys pursuing his art, teaching, writing articles, and traveling the globe speaking about his years with Ansel and the impact that had on his own work.

Alan is also a consummate and dedicated photographic educator who gladly shares his vast knowledge of the art and craft of fine art photography, inspiring professionals and amateurs alike as they work to realize and refine their photographic voice.

His photographs hang in collections, galleries and museums around the world, including the George O’Keeffe Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Huntington Library, the Center for Creative Photography, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Yale Museum of Art and other public and private collections.

Story Behind the Image

Nine days after Ansel passed away, I made a sort of pilgrimage up to Yosemite. I wanted to "just be" in a place that held so many memories of my mentor and friend of the last 11 years, and to contemplate his loss. About the time I reached the Park, it had started to rain. By the time I reached the Valley, it was really beginning to pour. I drove up to Inspiration Point, and, rain or not, I was surprised to find I had the whole magnificent view to myself. El Capitan and Cathedral Rocks were fading in and out of the mist, and I couldn't resist getting my 8x10 camera out and ready, just in case. It just felt like Ansel had set it all up for me. Fortunately, there was no wind, and I was able to record what I knew in my heart would be one of my favorite images. I gave the first print to Ansel's widow and a woman who so often felt like my "other mother," Virginia Adams.

Print Information

Alan Ross hand prints his images on fiber-based gelatin-silver photographic paper, which is then archivally corner-mounted in a 4-ply museum board presentation mat. Each is signed and numbered on the front of the print; stamped and titled on the back of the print and mount. Ross limits the number of prints to 100 per image regardless of size. A few images are in editions of 150. Prices increase as certain thresholds are reached.

Prices and availability subject to change without notice.


Ordering Information

Original photographs are hand-made, and not all sizes are kept in inventory.
Special orders from the photographer may take 4 to 6 weeks for delivery.

Please contact us at sales@anseladams.com if you have any questions about shipping and delivery.

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