Sale 2466 - Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks, February 15, 2018

123 c ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984) Half Dome, Yosemite * El Capitan, Yosemite. Together, 2 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 8 3 / 4 x7 and 9x6 7 / 8 inches (22.2x17.8 and 22.9x17.5 cm.), the mounts 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.); each accompanied by a Best’s Studio, Inc. printed envelope with the credit “A Photograph of Yosemite by Ansel Adams, Virginia and Ansel Adams, Operating Best’s Studio, Inc. Government Center, Yosemite National Park,” overall size 14 1 / 4 x11 1 / 4 inches (36.2x28.6 cm.). Circa 1942 and circa 1935 [6,000/9,000] The primary repository for Adams’ photo­ graphs, the Center for Creative Photography, in Tucson, Arizona, holds the negatives for each of these images but no vintage or modern prints.