ANSEL ADAMS - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/24/1959 - HFSID 172425

ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams types a letter to Nick Dean about his latest trip and how he did not get any good photograph but is looking forward to visiting with him.
Typed Letter Signed: "Ansel", 1p, 8½x11. San Francisco, California, 1959 October 24. On his personal letterhead. To Nick [Dean]. In full, with original spelling and grammar: "Dear Nick (repeat!) I have just returned from a trip through northern Calif and southern Oregon and am glad to be home! Not too many good pictures - - - - - condition pusy - and, for me, I'm still tired!! Gotta get some kind of a rest for a month or so - can't seem to catch up! Thought a lot about you and your work, etc. Wished I could have seen the exhibit! How did it work out? Planned to write you on the trip: was just too pooped in the evenings to manage it! We did 2000 miles in two weeks! And so it goes. Now - instead of writing you a lengthy tome, I shall be in postion to SEE and tlk with you between the 11th and the 22nd of November! Right in Cambridge! We can catch up! That will be good. I confess I am perplexed over (I) the Winklight, and (2) the electric shutter. All I find out is that (I) is 4X too strong, and (2) works about 1/4th 1 / 3rd of the time without the need for adjustments of some kind. I think somebody got real panicked !!!! and fell for the automatic competition. BRAVE NEW WORLD CLICK ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! poooooooo. Just between you and me - you know what I mean!!!! All best to you and yours" One correction in Adams hand. Adams has drawn in the blank margins. For over ten years, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), who is known for his photographs featuring America's natural beauty, was the publicity photographer for the Curry Company, which operates seven hotels in Yosemite National Park. In 1955, Adams initiated yearly photographic educational workshops at Yosemite that continued for 26 years (1955-1981). He moved the workshops to his home in Carmel in 1982, and they continue yearly as an Ansel Adams legacy by The Friends of Photography. At Yosemite, where Adams captured nature on film for over 60 years, he lectured on wilderness conservation and appreciation, as well as visualization in the art of photography. Much of Adams' professional photographic life was spent at Yosemite, where the Ansel Adams Gallery, formerly Best's Studio, is located (a different photographic exhibit is featured each month). Adams published approximately 40 books, including My Camera in National Parks (1950) and Yosemite and the Range of Light (1979). An ardent conservationist, he was a director of the Sierra Club from 1936-1973. He and his wife, Virginia, also had another, more intimate reason for their fondness for Yosemite; they were married there on January 2, 1928. NICK DEAN worked for Polaroid. In 1949, Adams had become a consultant for the newly formed company. File holes at left. Usual fold creases. Lightly toned and creased at blank edges. Otherwise, fine condition.