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INTRODUCTION

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Adams this concept in his 19S5 autobiography: Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams,

Autobiography (Boslon: Utile, Brown and and passim.

'2 Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, 'Introduction; in Adams and Newhall, Fial Lux: The

University ofCalifornia (New York: McGraw-HUI, 196'7), p. 7.

3 Letler of Contract Clark Kerr to Ansel Adams, Oelober 21, 1964. Ansel Adams Fiat

Lux CollectiOn, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA.

4 Fiat Lux, p. 7.

5 Kerr to Adams.

6 Ibid. The letler of contrael also specified Ihal Nancy Newhall would be primarily responsible lor wriling the textual accompaniment. Newhall was the wife of former Museum of Art photography Beaumont She and Adams had collaborated on previOUS occasions.

7. Sally Stein, 'On Location: The Placement and Replacement of 1930. Photography,' p. 179 and passim, In Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernste,n, and liens Susan Fort, eds., Reading California: Art, Image, and Identify, IOO()-2000 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 200 ll, p. 171-97,

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