mounted on Crescent board, early 1930s (Making a Photograph, p. 90; Autobiography, p. 180)

The photographer to Wynn and Edna Bullock

By descent to Barbara Bullock

Sothe🦄by's New York, 28 April 2004, Sale 7987, Lot 81

This early, luminous print is on paper with a semi-glossy surface. Aside from some insignificant wear on the edges, this print is in excellent condition. There are subtle variations within the gray tones, and it is quite different from the cooler, more contrasty later prints. When viewing the print in raking light, age-appropriate silvering is visible in the dark areas, primarily at the image periphery. Very light scattered foxing is visible on the off-white-colored mount, which does not in any way affect the image. The mount corners are bumped, and the lower right corner is ever-so-slightly creased.
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This photograph was given as a gift by Adams to his friends and fellow photographers Wynn and Edna Bullock.  It was subsequently given by Edna Bullock, shortly before her death in 1997, to her daughter Barbara.