Ansel Adams (86 page)

 
65
       Ansel Adams to John Szarkowski, June 22, 1976, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 339–341.

 
66
       John Szarkowski to Ansel Adams, June 28, 1976, ibid., 341, 343.

 
67
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 370; Ansel Adams to John Szarkowski, December 27, 1976, CCP.

 
68
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 370.

 
69
       James, “Artist of Light,” 7.

 
70
       Tim Hill interview.

 
71
       Lalli, “Portrait of the Photographer as a Grand Old Man,” 46.

 
72
       John Szarkowski to Ansel and Virginia Adams, March 11, 1977, CCP.

 
73
       Ben Lifson, “Adams as Epic Hero,”
Village Voice
, September 24, 1979, 88.

 
74
       Tim Hill interview.

 
75
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 370.

 
76
       D. and V. Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,” 67.

 
77
       Powell, “The Most Sought-After Photographs Today.”

20. TOO LITTLE TIME

 
1
       Milton Esterow, “Ansel Adams: The Last Interview,”
ARTnews
83, no. 6 (summer 1984): 89.

 
2
       These ideas developed in conversation with Tim Hill, March 29, 1995.

 
3
       Richard D. James, “Artist of Light,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 31, 1978, 1.

 
4
       James Alinder, “Ansel Adams, American Artist,” in Ansel Adams,
Ansel Adams: Classic Images
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1986), 23.

 
5
       Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., “Notes on the Museum Set,” ibid., 25.

 
6
       Ansel Adams to Dear Friend, 1976, Alinder collection.

 
7
       Maggi Weston, interview with the author, November 7, 1995.

 
8
       Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 363.

 
9
       Jim Powell, “The Most Sought-After Photographs Today—Should You Consider Buying Them?”
Collectibles Market Report
, January 1980.

 
10
       Elizabeth Bumiller, “Images of Harry Lunn: The Photo Mogul & His Developing Empire,”
Washington Post
, August 5, 1980, B9.

 
11
       The fourteen who received the Medal of Freedom that day were: Ansel Adams, photographer; Lucia Chase, ballerina; Archbishop Iakovos, Greek Orthodox Church; Clarence Mitchell, retired director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau; Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist; Admiral Hyman Rickover; Beverly Sills, opera singer; Robert Penn Warren, writer; Eudora Welty, writer; Tennessee Williams, playwright; and, posthumously, Rachel Carson, scientist and author; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey; President Lyndon Baines Johnson; and John Wayne.

 
12
       President Jimmy Carter, Ansel Adams Citation: Medal of Freedom.

 
13
       
Ansel Adams Photographer
, a production of FilmAmerica, Inc., presented on PBS by KQED/San Francisco, 1981, and available on DVD.

 
14
       Ted Orland, interview with the author, November 7, 1995.

 
15
       James G. Alinder, “Adams Family Values,”
View Camera
, March–April 1995, 16–19.

 
16
       For more information on John Sexton see johnsexton.com.

 
17
       David and Victoria Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,”
Playboy
, May 1983, 76.

 
18
       Ted Appel, “Treasures on Display,”
Press Democrat
(Santa Rosa), November 28, 1993, El, 36.

 
19
       Robert Baker, interview with the author, September 19, 1995.

21. LIFE AND DEATH

 
1
       David and Victoria Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,”
Playboy
, May 1983, 226.

 
2
       James G. Alinder, “Adams Family Values,”
View Camera
, March–April 1995, 16.

 
3
       Following his work with Ansel, Bob worked as a senior technical writer and executive at a number of Silicon Valley companies. After enduring a long illness, Bob died on February 12, 2009, at the too-young age of 64.

 
4
       D. and V. Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,” 73.

 
5
       Jim Alinder, interview with the author, never ending.

 
6
       Sue Meyer, interview with the author, September 12, 1995.

 
7
       Otto Meyer died in 1994 at the age of ninety and Sue in 2013, ninety-eight years old.

 
8
       Ansel Adams,
The Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Hills, California
(1982), reproduced in Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 367.

 
9
       Ansel Adams,
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 167.

 
10
       Ibid., 166–170.

 
11
       Peter Griffin to Ansel Adams, May 1983, in Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman,
Ansel Adams: Letters and Images, 1916–1984
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1988), 377–378.

 
12
       Ansel Adams to Peter Griffin, May 16, 1983, ibid., 378.

 
13
       D. and V. Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,” 87.

 
14
       A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 352.

 
15
       Dale Russakoff, “The Critique: Ansel Adams Takes Environmental Challenge to Reagan,”
Washington Post
, July 3, 1983, 1, 6.

 
16
       Ansel Adams to Mary Alinder, August 22, 1983, CCP.

 
17
       Ansel Adams,
Vladimir Ashkenazy, in Our Home, Carmel Highlands
(1983), reproduced in A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 379.

22. POST-MORTEM

 
1
       Ansel Adams to Mary Alinder, October 10, 1981, CCP.

 
2
       Ansel Adams to Mary Alinder, October 4, 1981, CCP.

 
3
       Chris Rainier, interview with the author, November 6, 1995.

 
4
       Rod Dresser and Maggi Weston fell in love and were married for ten years before Rod passed away in 2011.

 
5
       John Szarkowski retired as the director of the Department of Photography at MoMA after a tenure from 1962–1991. He died in 2007.

 
6
       Ansel Adams Museum Sets are now in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Wilderness Society, the Stanford Art Museum, the de Young Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Cornell University, Princeton University, Scripps College, and the College of New Rochelle.

 
7
       Ansel Adams,
Classic Images
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1986).

 
8
       
Ansel Adams 2014 Wall Calendar
, http://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/ansel

 
       
-adams-2014-wall-calendar [accessed November 20, 2013].

 
9
       E-mail from Rick Norsigian to Mary Alinder, March 1, 2002. Author’s files.

 
10
       Kelly St. John, “Yosemite Landmark Falls/Sentinel Dome’s Oft-photographed Jeffrey Pine Topples,”
SF Gate
, August 19, 2003. www.sfgate.com/news/article/Yosemite-landmark-falls-Sentinel Dome [accessed January 19, 2014].

 
11
       E-mail from Mary Alinder to Rick Norsigian, April 6, 2002. Author’s files.

 
12
       E-mail from Rick Norsigian to Mary Street Alinder, May 30, 2004. Author’s files.

 
13
       E-mail from Mary Street Alinder to Rick Norsigian, June 14, 2004. Author’s files.

 
14
       E-mail from Rick Norsigian to Mary Street Alinder, August 1, 2004. Author’s files.

 
15
       E-mail from Rick Norsigian to Mary Street Alinder, August 31, 2004. Author’s files.

 
16
       E-mail from Mary Street Alinder to Rick Norsigian, August 31, 2004. Author’s files.

 
17
       E-mail from Rick Norsigian to Mary Street Alinder, September 23, 2004. Author’s files.

 
18
       E-mail from Rick Norsigian to Mary Street Alinder, October 17, 2009. Author’s files.

 
19
       Rehan Harmanci, “Tale of Ansel Adams negatives Grows Hazy,” NYTimes.com
,
August 13, 2010 [accessed August 14, 2010].

 
20
       Statement by Matthew Adams, Yosemite, California, July 24, 2010. Author’s files.

 
21
       Harmanci, “Tale of Ansel Adams Negatives Grows Hazy.”

 
22
       Ibid.

 
23
       Rehan Harmanci, “Ansel Adams or Not? More Twists,”
New York Times
, November 10, 2010, C1 and C7; Rick Deutsch, “Arthur C. Pillsbury, Man with a Vision,”
Yosemite Gazette
, www.yosemitegazette.com [accessed January 20, 2014]; “The Studio of the Three Arrows, New Village,” A. C. Pillsbury Foundation, www.acpillsburyfoundation.org [accessed January 20, 2014].

 
24
       Website for David W. Streets, Beverly Hills, www.davidstreetsbeverlyhills.com [accessed January 20, 2014].

 
25
       Harmanci, “Tale of Ansel Adams Negatives Grows Hazy.”

 
26
       Mike Boehm, “Culture Monster,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 29, 2010, www.articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/29 [accessed January 19, 2014].

 
27
       The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, a California partnership, Plaintiff-Counter-defendant v. PRS Media Partners, LLC, a California limited liability company; Rick Norsigian, an individual, Defendant-Counter-claimants-Appellee v. The University of Arizona, Counter-defendant-Appellee, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Argued and Submitted November 7, 2012—San Francisco, California. Filed December 19, 2012.

 
28
       Mike Boehm, “Lawsuits over Disputed Ansel Adams ‘Lost Negatives’ Settled,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 15, 2011, www.articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/15/entertainment/la-et-ansel-adams-20110316 [accessed January 19, 2014].

 
29
       Email from Chris Bruback to Mary Alinder, April 12, 2009; and Paul Conley,
Dave Brubeck: Composing Ansel Adams
, April 2, 2009, in www.npr/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102656153 [accessed December 1, 2013].

 
30
       “Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck Receives Posthumous Grammy Nomination,”
Hollywood Reporter
, in www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dave-brubeck-receives-posthumous-grammy-398 [accessed December 1, 2013].

 
31
       Peter C. Bunnell was the director of the Princeton University Art Museum and the first McAlpin Chair in the History of Photography, the first endowed chair in the subject in this nation.

 
32
       David Bonetti,
San Francisco Chronicle
, October 18, 2001, in www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Ansel-Adams-Center-to-shut-its-doors [accessed November 25, 2013].