Ansel Adams (85 page)

 
45
       Ibid.

 
46
       Ansel Adams to President Jimmy Carter, November 8, 1979, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 355–356; Ansel Adams to President Jimmy Carter, July 16, 1980, ibid., 359–361; Ansel Adams to President Jimmy Carter, November 9, 1980, ibid., 363; President Jimmy Carter to Ansel Adams, November 9, 1979, ibid., 357; President Jimmy Carter to Ansel Adams, February 15, 1980, ibid., 357; President Jimmy Carter to Ansel Adams, August 25, 1980, ibid., 362.

 
47
       Ansel Adams to the Editor,
Monterey Peninsula Herald
, September 1, 1965.

 
48
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 659.

 
49
       Craig Juckniess, “A Tribute: Ansel Adams,”
Ecology Law Quarterly
14, no. 1 (1987): 5.

 
50
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 352–355.

 
51
       Bill Barich, “Bound for Glory,”
San Francisco Examiner Magazine
, May 1, 1994, 30.

 
52
       Associated Press, “Yosemite Plan Seeks to Protect River, Public Access,”
The Press Democrat
, February 15, 2014, A4.

 
53
       Tom Stienstra, “Rationing Paradise,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, August 6, 1995, C-1, C-6.

 
54
       James Schermerhorn, “Curbing the Auto’s Reign at Yosemite,”
San Francisco Examiner
, July 12, 1970, A4.

 
55
       Associated Press, “Yosemite Plan Seeks to Protect River, Public Access.”

 
56
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 422.

 
57
       Milton Esterow, “Ansel Adams: The Last Interview,”
ARTnews
83, no. 6 (summer 1984): 89.

 
58
       Ansel Adams to Dorothea Lange, May 15, 1962, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 281, 283.

 
59
       Ansel Adams, “The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship: The Role of the Artist in Conservation,” lecture given at University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources, Department of Forestry & Conservation, March 3, 1975, 6.

19. PRICE RISE

 
1
       Ansel Adams, “The Aggressive Persuasion: A Credo for Survival,” Chubb Fellowship Lecture, Yale University, CCP; Robert Turnage, “The Role of the Artist in the Environmental Movement,”
The Living Wilderness
, March 1980, 13.

 
2
       Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 156–157.

 
3
       Jonathan Spaulding,
Ansel Adams and the American Landscape
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 351.

 
4
       Liliane De Cock, interview with the author, September 20, 1995.

 
5
       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, 301.

 
6
       Ansel Adams to Marion Patterson, September 19, 1972, in Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, eds.,
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images
,
1916–1984
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 317–318.

 
7
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 106, 157.

 
8
       Ibid., 103–104.

 
9
       Ted Orland, Ansel’s photographic assistant from 1972–1974, remembers Ansel repeatedly stating that if he signed the print that meant he had made the print.

 
10
       James G. Alinder, “Adams Family Values,
View Camera
, March–April 1995, 16–19; and Ansel Adams Gallery website, www.anseladams.com [accessed December 3, 2013].

 
11
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 178.

 
12
       “Drive a Datsun, Plant a Tree,” Datsun television commercial (1972), CCP.

 
13
       A. Adams to M. Patterson, September 19, 1972.

 
14
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 178.

 
15
       “The New Tree Sell,”
Time
, August 21, 1972, 65.

 
16
       A. Adams, “Conversations,” 645.

 
17
       A. Adams to M. Patterson, ibid.

 
18
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 179.

 
19
       Jane Alexiadis, “What’s It Worth? Ansel Adams’ Tin Can Print,”
San Jose Mercury News
, June 24, 2011. www.mercurynews.com/ci_18332988 [accessed December 3, 2013].

 
20
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 361.

 
21
       Invoices from Ansel Adams to Wolverine Worldwide, 1972 and 1973, CCP; letters between Bill Turnage and Wolverine Worldwide, 1972 and 1973, CCP. Wolverine published a portfolio of reproductions of eleven of Ansel’s black-and-white photographs under the title
Ansel Adams’ America.

 
22
       Richard D. James, “Artist of Light,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 31, 1978, 1.

 
23
       Ibid.

 
24
       Carole Lalli, “Portrait of the Photographer as a Grand Old Man,”
Esquire
, September 1979, 46.

 
25
       Jim Powell, “The Most Sought-After Photographs Today—Should You Consider Buying Them? An In-depth Look at the Ansel Adams Market,”
Collectibles Market Report
, January 1980.

 
26
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 362; “A.A. to Stop Printing,”
Exposure, Journal of the Society for Photographic Education
13, no. 3 (September 1975): 32.

 
27
       Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., “Notes on the Museum Set,” in Ansel Adams,
Ansel Adams: Classic Images, The Museum Set
(Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1985), 26; A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 362; James Alinder, “Artist of Light,” 7.

 
28
       Elizabeth Bumiller, “Images of Harry Lunn: The Photo Mogul & His Developing Empire,”
Washington Post
, August 5, 1980, B1, B9.

 
29
       Powell, “The Most Sought-After Photographs Today.”

 
30
       Lalli, “Portrait of the Photographer as a Grand Old Man,” 46.

 
31
       Bumiller, “Images of Harry Lunn.”

 
32
       Margaret Loke, “Harry Lunn Jr., 65, Art Dealer Who Championed Photography,”
New York Times
, August 24, 1998, www.nytimes.com/1998/08/24/arts/harry-lunn-jr-art-dealer
[accessed December 3, 2013].

 
33
       Bumiller, “Images of Harry Lunn.”

 
34
       “Announcement of Ansel Adams Photograph Prices Effective August 8, 1978,” press release, Washington, D.C., Graphics International Ltd.

 
35
       Ansel Adams to Dear Friend, 1976, Alinder collection.

 
36
       James G. Alinder, “Adams Family Values,”
View Camera
, March–April 1995, 16–19.

 
37
       Tim Hill, interview with the author, March 29, 1995.

 
38
       Stewart McBride, “Ansel,”
American Photographer
4, no. 6 (December 1980): 60.

 
39
       Ansel Adams to Beaumont Newhall, December 5, 1975, CCP.

 
40
       David McAlpin to Ansel Adams, January 26, 1972, CCP.

 
41
       David McAlpin to Ansel Adams, January 16, 1972, quoted in A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 231.

 
42
       Hilton Kramer, “Ansel Adams: Trophies from Eden,”
New York Times
, May 12, 1974, 23.

 
43
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 368–370.

 
44
       Ibid. A reproduction of
Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland
(1976) can be found on page 368. Ansel Adams to Beaumont Newhall, October 1, 1976, CCP.

 
45
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 368–370.

 
46
       Henri Cartier-Bresson to Ansel Adams, August 1974, CCP.

 
47
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 370.

 
48
       Ansel Adams to John P. Schaefer, March 23, 1975, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 334–336; Ansel Adams to John P. Schaefer, May 19, 1975, ibid., 336–339.

 
49
       “Collections,” Center for Creative Photography, www.creativephotography.org/collections [accessed December 3, 2013]; Terry Pitts, interview with the author, October 4, 1995. Mr. Pitts was the director of the Center for Creative Photography.

 
50
       bid.

 
51
       The exceptions are the Yosemite Special Edition Prints.

 
52
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 360.

 
53
       Ibid.

 
54
       J. Alinder, “Adams Family Values.”

 
55
       McBride, “Ansel,” 60.

 
56
       Teiser and Harroun, “Conversations with Ansel Adams,” 569.

 
57
       
Photographs of the Southwest
(1976);
The Portfolios of Ansel Adams
(1977);
Taos Pueblo
(facsimile edition of the 1930 book, 1977);
Ansel Adams: Fifty Years of Portraits
(1978);
Polaroid Land Photography
(1978);
Yosemite and the Range of Light
(1979);
The Camera
(1980);
The Negative
(1981);
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
(1983);
The Print
(1983).

 
58
       Dorothea Lange, “The Making of a Documentary Photographer,” an oral history conducted 1960–1961 by Suzanne B. Riess, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1968, 201.

 
59
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 346–347; and Ansel Adams to President Gerald Ford, “New Initiatives for the National Parks,” CCP.

 
60
       President Gerald Ford to Ansel Adams, April 8, 1975, CCP.

 
61
       David and Victoria Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,”
Playboy
, May 1983, 86, 223.

 
62
       Tim Hill interview.

 
63
       John Szarkowski, “Introduction,” William Eggleston,
William Eggleston’s Guide
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976).

 
64
       David McAlpin to Ansel Adams, June 10, 1976, CCP. David Hunter McAlpin III died on June 1, 1989. He was ninety-two years old. An alumnus of Princeton, he endowed a professorship of the history of photography in the art department and also funded a department of photography in the Princeton Art Museum. “David Hunter McAlpin ’20 *21,”
Princeton Alumni Weekly
, November 22, 1989.