Bridalveil Fall - Large Print Rolled
Digitally mastered print from Ansel's Original Photograph
Print Type: Modern Replica
Image Sizes: 30x38" Rolled Only
Caution: This media is very delicate. Please have an art framing professional handle it directly from tube to frame.
Overview
This beautiful oversized Modern Replica is made using the very latest digital technologies to provide a large print-on-demand work of art.
Modern Replicas were born from the desire of the artist's family to create a collection of Ansel Adams prints that showcased the artist throughout his career and delivered at a level of quality comparable to an original. The collection of Modern Replicas span Ansel's lifetime of exploration in Yosemite, and also beyond to the remote wonders of the Southwest, the expanses of Alaska, the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and the coastlines of California and New England. Each black and white replica is reproduced directly from an original photograph by Ansel Adams, and carefully crafted to mirror the photograph's brilliance and richness in contrast and tone.
Exclusively from The Ansel Adams Gallery, these digitally-mastered prints leverage modern technologies, not available during Ansel's lifetime, in order to allow more people the enjoyment of owning and displaying an Ansel Adams piece. Available in a variety of sizes, up to 40x50 inches, Modern Replicas offer the flexibility to enhance both the larger and more intimate spaces of your home. Modern Replicas will stand the test of time. Made with museum-quality materials estimated to last over 180 years, their heavy paper mimics the look and feel of gelatin silver paper, and multiple pigments reflect the tones and highlights of Ansel's original works. Each replica can be finished with a custom frame of your choice, arriving at your home ready to hang. Authorized by the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, this collection ranges in price from from $149 to $1,899 depending on size and framing.
Join us in celebrating a full range of some of Ansel's finest work, featuring America's wild places, its national parks, and its great mountain ranges. As an owner of an Ansel Adams Modern Replica, you become a part of the story behind these images—of wildness and wilderness, that spans generations and continues to inspire us today—to see, revere, and protect the Earth.
About the Image
Ansel Adams made this image with a 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" Korona view camera and a glass plate negative around 1927. The image captures Yosemite 's majestic Bridalveil Fall, including the curling mist that inspired its Native American name pohono , meaning “puff of wind.” The fall looms large in family lore: in 1901, Harry and Anne Best, the parents of Ansel's wife Virginia, were married at its base.
"Bridalveil Fall" is emblematic of the images Adams made during the late 1920s, a critical development period in his career. During this time, he asserted control of the photographic process by accentuating and minimizing different aspects of his images, a process he called visualization.
Adams discussed visualization in "Modern Photography 1934-35: The Studio Annual of Camera Art," writing that before exposing the negative, "The photographer visualizes his conception of the subject as present in the final print."
His friend Francis Farquhar described Adams ' brilliance at visualization in a 1931 article for Touring Topics:
"It is the artist's genius which enables him to perceive at once the arrangement of masses, the flow of lines, and the texture of surfaces in the object of vision, whether it be a mountain, a landscape, a building, a cloud, a tree, a human form or face, or anything whatsoever."
Adams emerged from the 1920s with a new vision of his role as an artist and abandoned his ambition to become a concert pianist.
"Bridalveil Fall" appeared in Sierra Nevada: the John Muir Trail , Yosemite and the Range of Light , (out of print), Yosemite and the High Sierra , Yosemite , and "Classic Images," the book based on the Museum Set, a retrospective portfolio of what Adams considered his strongest work.
Ordering Information
Quick Ship Products: These pieces will ship within 1-3 business days—perfect for last-minute gifts or decor. Please note that these prints are sold as is and cannot be custom-framed or modified. Limited Quantity!
These oversized prints are only available rolled, and will ship in a large protective tube.
Print Preparation Time: These prints are produced on demand. Please allow up to 10 business days for printing and inspection
Technical information on Ansel Adams Modern Replicas included
Caution: This media is very delicate. Please have an art framing professional handle it directly from tube to frame.
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