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Lower Paradise Valley, Southern Sierra by Ansel Adams — VisualArtsDB

Lower Paradise Valley, Southern Sierra

Lower Paradise Valley, Southern Sierra

1920–1927

Medium: Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras" (1927)
Dimensions: Image: 15 × 20.3 cm (5 15/16 × 8 in.); Paper: 25.1 × 30.1 cm (9 15/16 × 11 7/8 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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