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Water and Foam by Ansel Adams — VisualArtsDB

Water and Foam

Water and Foam

1950–1959

Medium: Gelatin silver print, No. 8 from "Portfolio Three: Yosemite Valley" (1959)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 18 × 16.9 cm (7 1/8 × 6 11/16 in.); Mount: 45.9 × 35.6 cm (18 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographygelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paperCollected by Hugh Edwards

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