About This Artwork

Ansel Easton Adams
American, 1902–1984

The Black Sun, Tungsten Hills, Owens Valley, California, c. 1939

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1970
34.6 x 46.7 cm
Mary and Leigh Block Photography Fund, 1971.584

© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, "The Earth As It Was: Photographs by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and William Clift," May 5 - September 3, 2007. (David Travis)

Publication History

Adams, Ansel. 1977 "The Portfolios of Ansel Adams." Introduction by John Szarkowski. New York Graphic Society, Boston. p. 87.




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