Authors: Mary Street Alinder
One other collaborative article was published in 1968, though Nancy did not have any creative control over its presentation, as she had with the others: Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, “Mary Austin’s Country,”
Arizona Highways
, April 1968, 6.
11
Malin Wilson, “Walking on the Desert in the Sky,”
The Desert Is No Lady
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), 57–60.
12
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
Death Valley
(Redwood City, Calif.: 5 Associates, 1954); Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
Mission San Xavier del Bac
(Redwood City, Calif.: 5 Associates, 1954).
13
A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 214–215.
14
Nancy Newhall to Ansel Adams, June 17, 1952, CCP. Copyright Nancy Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate, courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
15
Doris Leonard, interview with the author, September 11, 1995.
16
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
The Pageant of History and the Panorama of Today in Northern California
(San Francisco: American Trust Company, 1954).
17
Ansel Adams
,
Photographer.
Script by Nancy Newhall; produced by Larry Dawson; directed by David Meyers, 1957.
18
Ansel Adams,
Yosemite Valley
, ed. Nancy Newhall (San Francisco: 5 Associates, 1959); Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
A More Beautiful America
(New York: American Conservation Association, 1965); Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
Fiat Lux: The University of California
(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967); Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall,
The Tetons and the Yellowstone
(Redwood City, Calif.: 5 Associates, 1970).
19
Peter C. Bunnell,
Minor White: The Eye That Shapes
(Princeton: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1989); Walter P. Paepcke, “Memorandum of Conversation with Mr. Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art, Regarding September 1–8 Photo Seminar at Aspen” [July 1952], CCP.
20
Berenice Abbott, “Objectives for Photography,” Aspen Institute Conference on Photography, October 6, 1951.
21
Ken Conner and Debra Heimerdinger,
Horace Bristol: An American View
(San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996), 37.
22
A Study of the Accumulative Audience of LIFE
, survey conducted for
Life
magazine (New York: Alfred Politz Research, 1950), 20.
23
Marc Silver, “
Aperture
Magazine under the Editorship of Minor White 1952–1964,” master’s thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1989, 12.
24
Theodore Peterson,
Magazines in the Twentieth Century
(Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1964), 350.
25
Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, November 25, 1945, CCP.
26
Bunnell,
Minor White
, 7.
27
Jasmine A. Alinder, “The Conception and Founding of
Aperture
,” Junior thesis, Princeton University, 1990, 5–6. For much of the information about the founding of
Aperture
and its relationship to the world of publishing, I am indebted to the scholarship of our daughter, Dr. Jasmine Alinder.
28
Nancy Newhall to Minor White, February 27, 1952, Minor White Archive, Princeton University. Copyright Nancy Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate, courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
29
Jasmine Alinder, “The Conception and Founding of
Aperture
,” 24.
30
Beaumont Newhall to Ansel Adams, March 15, 1952, CCP.
31
Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, March 10, 1952, CCP.
32
Minor White, ed.,
Aperture
1, no. 1.
33
Jasmine Alinder, “The Conception and Founding of
Aperture
,” 28–29.
34
Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Nancy Newhall, Ansel Adams, Beaumont Newhall, Barbara Morgan, Ernest Louie, Melton Ferris, Dody Warren, “1952: About Aperture,”
Aperture
1, no. 1; Peter C. Bunnell, ed.,
Aperture Magazine Anthology: The Minor White Years
,
1952–1976
(New York: Aperture Foundation, 2012).
35
Beaumont Newhall to Ansel Adams, July 13, 1960. Copyright Beaumont Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate, courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
36
Nancy Newhall to Minor White, June 23, 1952, Minor White Archive, Princeton University; Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, July 2, 1952, CCP; Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, August 30, 1952, CCP.
37
Aperture Foundation and its Burden Gallery is at 547 W. 27th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10001. An annual subscription to
Aperture
is $75 in 2014.
38
Beaumont Newhall, “The Beginning,” Peter C. Bunnell, “Why The Friends?” and James G. Alinder, “The Friends: A Retrospective View,”
Light Years, Untitled
43 (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1987).
39
Ibid.
40
Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, March 11, 1974, CCP. Letter reprinted in A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 218, without his charges about their smoking.
41
Liliane De Cock, interview with the author, September 20, 1995.
42
Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, January 25, 1961, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 268–269; Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, September 13, 1973, ibid., 318–321.
43
Ansel Adams, “Conversations with Ansel Adams,” an oral history conducted 1972, 1974, 1975 by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1978, 404.
44
Ibid., 740.
45
Beaumont Newhall,
Focus: A Life in Photography
(Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1993), 245–246; A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 218–219. Some of the details of Nancy’s death I learned only in conversation with Beaumont in 1987.
46
Ansel Adams to Beaumont Newhall, July 10, 1974, in M. Alinder and Stillman,
Letters and Images
, 333.
47
Letter from Ansel Adams to Beaumont Newhall, August 18, 1974, ibid., 334; Virginia Adams, interview with the author, March 21, 1993.
48
Virginia Adams, interview with the author, May 17, 1988; David Scheinbaum, interview with the author, October 3, 1995.
49
Newhall,
Focus
, 246–247. Copyright Beaumont Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Estate, courtesy of Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
50
Ibid., 247–248.
51
Christi Newhall and David Scheinbaum to Jim and Mary Alinder, April 23, 1993.
17. ANOTHER PATH
1
Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, September 30, 1952, CCP.
2
Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, June 20, 1952, CCP.
3
Ansel Adams with Mary Street Alinder,
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985), 159.
4
Ansel Adams, “Conversations with Ansel Adams,” an oral history conducted 1972, 1974, 1975 by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1978, 118.
5
Peter C. Wensberg,
Land’s Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1987), 25–30.
6
Ibid., 64–65.
7
Ibid., 83.
8
“A summary of some of the important dates in the history of Polaroid Land photography,” Cambridge, Mass.: Polaroid Corporation. Brochure.
9
Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, December 8, 1948, CCP.
10
A. Adams, “Conversations,” 117. In
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
, 293, writing some thirty years after the event, Ansel recalled being taken to the Lands’ for a party and the next morning going to the lab. In a 1972 interview for his oral history, Ansel said that he was present at the Optical Society of America meeting at which Land first introduced the Polaroid process, but this cannot be true, because on February 21, 1947, he was actually in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
11
In a 1945 letter, Ansel wrote to Nancy Newhall that Polaroid had invited him to come visit the plant in Cambridge and make photographs using Polaroid materials, but nothing seems to have come of this. Ansel Adams to Nancy Newhall, November 25, 1945, CCP.
12
From Beaumont Newhall’s journal, reproduced in Nancy Newhall, “The Enduring Moment,” [unpublished manuscript], 673.
13
A. Adams, “Conversations,” 118; David and Victoria Sheff, “The Playboy Interview,”
Playboy
, May 1983, 84.
14
Ansel Adams, “How I Use the Polaroid Camera” (illustrated with twelve photographs),
Modern Photography
, September 1951, 36–39, 80, 82.
15
Ansel Adams, “Introduction,” in Ansel Adams with Robert Baker,
Polaroid Land Photography
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978), ix–x; A. Adams, “Conversations,” 120; Mary Street Alinder, “Ansel Adams’ Polaroid Connection, Part II,”
The Polaroid Newsletter for Photographic Education
4, nos. 3 and 4 (summer–fall 1987): 3.
16
Ansel Adams,
Camera & Lens
(New York: Morgan and Lester, 1948).
17
Ansel Adams,
Natural-Light Photography
(New York: Morgan and Morgan, 1952).
18
Ansel Adams to Edwin Land, January 10, 1950, quoted in A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 295–296.
19
Wensberg,
Land’s Polaroid
, 129–132.
20
A. Adams, “Conversations,” 39.
21
A. Adams with Baker,
Polaroid Land Photography
, 45–47.
22
Imogen Cunningham to Ansel Adams, quoted in A. Adams with M. Alinder,
Autobiography
, 301. Courtesy of the Imogen Cunningham Trust. Her self-portrait is reproduced on page 300 of the same book.
23
Ansel Adams to Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, April 15, 1961, CCP.
24
A. Adams, “Conversations,” 522.
25
Ansel Adams,
Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1983), 44–47.
26
Ansel Adams,
Singular Images
(Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974).
27
Edwin Land, “Private Ruminations on Looking at Ansel Adams’ Photographs,” ibid.