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Badwater Sky and Pools, Death Valley
Original Gelatin Silver Photograph by Alan Ross
Signed and numbered by artist
Negative: 2001
Mounted and overmatted with 4-ply archival museum board
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Story Behind the Image
This photograph was made during an October Eastern Sierra and Death Valley workshop. Early one morning after paying our sunrise respects to the scenery from Zabriskie Point, we relocated to Badwater, 282 feet below sea-level and the lowest point in the continental US. There were still a few people out at that hour, and the scene was quiet and the wind was still.
There seemed to be more water than I had seen before and I was taken by the mirrored reflections of the as-yet un-sunlit terrain. I probably used a #12 deep yellow filter to give the sky and shadowed land a quiet mood.
This is another case where if I had not made the photograph when I did, I would not have been able to make the same image at a later date. The pools had been in this state for millennia, but in its desire to protect the location for the future, the Park Service opted to build wooden decking around the pools just a few months after I made this photograph.
6x7" negative
About Artist
Alan Ross is an internationally respected master photographer and educator who expresses his unique vision with a combination of traditional photographic craftsmanship and today’s technology. His tonally exquisite photographs take the viewer from the grandeur of the American West to the changing faces of China to abstractions created by the relationship of objects both natural and man-made. Each image is a purely visual and emotional response to the subject matter, executed with an exacting eye and superior technical artistry.
Alan honed his vision and technique while working side-by-side with Ansel Adams in the field and in the darkroom as his full-time photographic assistant. He was integrally involved with Adams’ books, teaching in Yosemite, and production of fine prints. Alan was personally selected by Adams to be the exclusive printer of the Yosemite Special Edition Photograph negatives, an assignment he has enjoyed for nearly 50 years. As such, Alan knows Ansel’s approach and technique perhaps better than any other photographer today.
Print Information
Limited Edition Prints signed and numbered in an edition of 100. Each print is made personally by Alan Ross, printed either on Ilford Multigrade Classic fiber paper (SGP) and selenium toned or on Canson Platine paper (APP) using a Canon Pro-1000 printer and my personal printing profiles. Mounted and over-matted with 4-ply or 8-ply museum board using the most current industry standards for archival permanence.
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Ordering Information
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