Golden Gate Headlands
Original Photograph Negative: ca, 1952
Artist: Ansel Adams
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Made near Lincoln Park in San Francisco, this image was executed on the edge of the city circa 1950, and virtually no development is visible. Broadly speaking, the viewer is left with an initial vision of an unadulterated heroic landscape, much how Ansel was known to photograph Yosemite Valley from his perches around Inspiration Point and Tunnel View. Around this same time, Ansel was active in proposing the government establish a National Monument around the Headlands to protect it from sprawl, and as much as it did in his photographs of Yosemite and Kings Canyon in the Sierra, his treatment of this scene aligns greatly with this philosophical and societal vision.
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he Golden Gate before the Bridge, San Francisco, CA, 1932 — One beautiful storm-clearing morning” Adams wrote, “I looked out the window of our San Francisco home and saw magnificent clouds rolling from the north over the Golden Gate.
