
'Hills, Snow, Ridge Route'
A stark and minimalist composition of snow-covered hills and ridgelines, emphasizing the geometric forms created by winter conditions on the Route. The image demonstrates Adams' abstract approach to landscape photography.
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- Sotheby's, New York, NY
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🔨 Auction Lot
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Photographs
February 17, 2022
Estimate: $6,000 to $9,000
Lot 45
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Artists in conversation

Brett Weston
American · b. 1911

Brett Weston shared Adams' mastery of black and white photography with a strong emphasis on abstract geometric forms found in natural landscapes. His stark compositions of snow, sand, and terrain reveal the same minimalist sensibility and tonal precision seen in this ridge composition.

Minor White
American · b. 1908

Minor White frequently photographed snow covered landscapes and geological forms with a deeply abstract and meditative approach, transforming terrain into stark geometric patterns. His black and white winter landscapes share the same quiet minimalism and formal abstraction present in this Adams piece.

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Japanese · b. 1948

Sugimoto creates black and white photographs that reduce natural and architectural subjects to their most elemental geometric forms, producing a serene minimalist stillness. His landscapes and seascapes share the same reductive compositional logic and tonal discipline that Adams demonstrates in this snow covered ridgeline image.
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