Gotta love big black and white silver gelatin prints. This is a really tough negative to print.
I love the moon in photographs. You can get it two days before the full moon as a moonrise and two days after the full moon as a moon set. Seems it's always bigger in your imagination than in the photograph.
Ansel Adams `Moonrise' print sold for $360K in NYC NEW YORK - A 1948 print of Ansel Adams' iconic photograph "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" has sold for $360,000 at an auction in New York City. Swann Auction Galleries said the rare print was bought Tuesday by a U.S. collector who wanted to remain anonymous. Its pre-sale estimate was $350,000 to $450,000. Made in a range of subtle grays, the signed print shows a nighttime moon over a cloud-fringed mountain range with a graveyard in the foreground. A later print of "Moonrise" sold at the same auction for $48,000, just over its high estimate of $45,000. The sale prices include a buyer's premium of 20 percent.
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1774??
Wasn't that a tab bit before either one of you was born . . Mathuselah?
B Woodman
III-per (with a chuckle)
I had no idea you were so far advanced in years. No wonder your writing is so good.
In my opinion the print he made for Pirkle Jones (sic) is a better print.
Lower contrast and a broader tonal range. It sold in a Sotheby's auction for over $600M.
I think it was Harry Lund, a Washington D.C. dealer, that got him to print with more contrast. All though I understand that there are a number of people who take credit for his moving in that direction.
I agree with you that there are very few things that I have ever seen that as beautiful as well printed black and white photographs.
Too bad about not buying the print in 1974.
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