Ansel Adams
Plates contributed
The 1 plate attributed to Ansel Adams in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0258 | USA | Relationships and community | — | Clervaux |
Notes
One plate in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-07): photo-0258 (Section 25 Relationships, USA, 140 x 168 cm in the MoMA Master Checklist). Full name ‘Ansel Easton Adams’ per src-wikipedia-adams-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-07). Born 1902; died 1984 per src-icp-adams-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-07). The February 20, 1902 / April 22, 1984 day-month tokens and the San Francisco birthplace / Monterey CA deathplace tokens carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-adams-pointer. Founded Group f/64 in 1932 with Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and others per src-icp-adams-archive (verbatim). Lived in Yosemite Valley 1937–1962, taught annual workshops 1955–1984 per src-icp-adams-archive (verbatim). Assisted Beaumont Newhall and David McAlpin in forming the MoMA Department of Photography in 1940 per src-icp-adams-archive (verbatim). Guggenheim grants 1946, 1948, 1958 per src-icp-adams-archive. The single FoM plate is identified as Mount Williamson per src-wikipedia-adams-pointer (verbatim: ‘Edward Steichen selected Adams’s Mount Williamson for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man, which was seen by nine million visitors’); Wikipedia further records the plate as a 10×12-foot floor-to-ceiling backdrop to Section 25 ‘Relationships’ — DIMENSIONAL DISCREPANCY: the MoMA Master Checklist records photo-0258 at 140×168 cm (≈ 4’7” × 5’6”), not 10×12 feet. The Wikipedia figure may refer to an enlarged installation print made for the wall backdrop while the checklist records a smaller print on file; this is flagged for follow-up against MoMA’s installation archive and is NOT resolved this round.
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/ansel-adams
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