Correspondence, February 1953 Digital
Scope and Contents
Adams writes about testing the Pathfinder camera and the Polaroid Land back, focussing hood, and extension focussing back that he used with his Graphic camera. He also writes about testing the following Type 40 films: "Ortho," "Aero," "high-speed, long-scale pan," "fast pan" "EO 11 ortho" "fast Ortho" and "Regular". In the correspondence he also discusses Polaroid's reproduction project, and comments on the "rubber cement effect" and a Polaroid exhibit at a photo conference at the George Eastman House. Most of the black and white test photographs associated with the correspondence were taken at Fort Winfield Scott in San Francisco, at his local art museum, at a cemetery in Marin County, California, and at a beach near his San Francisco home. The negatives and photographs used for the reproduction tests are of an unidentified man, ferns, a fossil, machinery wheels and landscapes.
Dates
- Creation: 1949-1978
Conditions Governing Access
A majority of the materials in this series have been digitized and made available online for research and study. Original Ansel Adams prints are not available for high-resolution download. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for additional information regarding access and reproductions.
Digitized content follows the organization of the physical collection. Related correspondence, memoranda, and photographs are grouped by month and year. Photograph albums were digitized separately. Albums unassociated with correspondence or memoranda have been separated from the month and year of their creation in the intellectual arrangement of the collection.
Extent
30 linear feet (59 boxes)Physical Location
MANU
Creator
- From the Collection: Adams, Ansel (Ansel Easton) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
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