A Yosemite peak: He was given his first camera on his first visit to Yosemite at fourteen, and his Monolith, The Face of Half Dome (1927) shows its granite peak.
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The copy sent to Washington helped make the case for Kings Canyon National Park.
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The grand American landscape at its most exacting: Yosemite, Moonrise over Hernandez, every tone placed by the Zone System from pure black to textured white. Sharp from the nearest rock to the farthest peak.
Colour
Black and white.
Composition
Grand vistas, strong foreground, layered distance; often symmetrical.
