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Monolith: The Face of Half Dome – Historic Reproduction

Monolith: The Face of Half Dome — historic image
Monolith: The Face of Half Dome. Historic image from the Yosemite collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Monolith: The Face of Half Dome, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Monolith: The Face of Half Dome

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Ansel Adams made this view of Half Dome's sheer granite face in 1927, when the wall was still seen as a near-vertical barrier that few had climbed. He framed the rock so that its smooth, nearly unbroken surface fills most of the scene, and the tonal shifts in the stone carry the composition. The picture belongs to the period when Adams was building his reputation for large, carefully controlled images of the Sierra Nevada, and it helped shape how visitors and photographers thought about Yosemite's monolithic landforms.

Original scan6,206 × 7,412 px · prints to 21 × 25 in at 300 dpi
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