WELCOME TO THE
 

ALINDER GALLERY

Better art.  Better Life.

 

Gualala, California, USA

Contact us by phone (707) 884-4884; or by email alinders@mcn.org

 
     
     
 


Exclusively Fine Photography

 

 

 

 

Specialists in the Photographs of Ansel Adams

 

 


 

 James G. Alinder &
Mary Street Alinder

Address:
39141 S. Hwy One
P.O. Box 449
Gualala, CA 95445

Phone:
707-884-4884

We offer photographs as works of art.  As biographers of Ansel Adams we are in a unique position to offer our wealth of knowledge in assistance to any collector.

All prices are in U.S. dollars and while we strive to maintain accurate prices on this website, they are subject to change without notice.  Typically there is only one print available of any image and it is in excellent condition.  Please contact us to confirm availability, condition, and current price.

FAQ’S 

Who are the Alinders?

 Mary Street Alinder is an independent scholar specializing in the history of photography. She is the biographer of Ansel Adams and an authority on 20th century photography. From 1979 until his death in 1984 Alinder worked as the chief assistant to Ansel Adams. In 1985, she completed the New York Times best seller, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, followed by a companion book of letters in 1988. After eight additional years of rigorous research, Alinder's Ansel Adams: A Biography was published in 1996 by Henry Holt & Co.  She has authored, co-authored and edited a number of other books and articles on fine art photography.  Mary has lectured on Adams all over the world.

 James Alinder received a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from the University of New Mexico in 1968 and spent the next decade as a professor of art at the University of Nebraska. In 1977 at the request of Ansel Adams, he became the executive director of The Friends of Photography in Carmel, developed it into the nation's largest non-profit photography organization.  He has written or edited some forty books on creative photography.  In 1990 they opened the Alinder Gallery in Gualala that is devoted to fine art photography. 

As an artist, his photographs are in many museum permanent collections and he has twice received artist's fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Alinders have curated more than 100 exhibitions worldwide, including the 1987 Ansel Adams blockbuster at San Francisco’s de Young Museum and a 2002 Centennial Adams exhibit.

Visiting The Sea Ranch or Gualala?
We are a three hour drive north of San Francisco, on the Pacific Ocean.  We're located on Shoreline Highway One in downtown Gualala. Gallery hours are from 12 to 5 pm, or by appointment, closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

Preview of Artwork
Special arrangements can often be made for viewing of artwork prior to sale.

 Framing
The gallery provides framing at additional expense. We exclusively use OP-3 Museum quality ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas.  Please inquire at time of purchase about availability of frames.

Payment
Payment is due at time of sale.  We accept cash, checks and major credit cards.

California Taxes
There is a 8.25% sales tax for all purchases within the State of California.

Sales tax is not applicable to purchases billed and shipped to an out-of-state address.

Shipping
Artwork will be packaged professionally and shipped via the best means available, usually Federal Express, at the expense of the client. Your shipment will be insured by the gallery for its full value.  Report any damage immediately after receipt.

Authenticity and Satisfaction Guarantee
All purchases are guaranteed to be as described. All photographs are in excellent condition unless otherwise noted. We are happy to provide you with a Certificate of Authenticity.  If you are not satisfied with your purchase you may return the artwork within 7 days for a full refund. To return artwork, contact the gallery to make arrangements. Please retain original packaging in case artwork is to be returned. Artwork must be insured by you for full value when being returned.

 

email address

alinders@mcn.org

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Copyrights and other proprietary rights in the photographs and other material on this website may also subsist in individuals and entities other than and in addition to the Alinder Gallery.

The Alinder Gallery expressly prohibits the copying of any protected materials on this website, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws.

 

 

Ansel Adams, Aspens, Northern New Mexico
 Negative made 1958, gelatin-silver print made by the artist c.1977,
signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, artist's Carmel 93921 studio stamp on verso of mount, 15 x 19-inch print size, dry mounted to 22 x 28-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas, Excellent Condition,  $39,000.00

This photograph is usually called "Horizontal Aspens" because Ansel made a vertical image of Aspens on the same day and in the same place. Aspens, Northern New Mexico is one of Ansel's "top ten" photographs.  This particular print is extraordinarily beautiful such that no screen reproduction can do it justice.  It is in exceptional condition.  Ansel made Aspens, Northern New Mexico in the Sangre de Christo mountains outside of Santa Fe.  Describing the experience, he wrote, "...we came across a stand of young aspen trees.  I immediately knew there were wonderful images to be made...We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring.  The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.  The forest floor was covered with a tangle of russet shrubs.  It was very quiet and visually soft...This photograph is exceedingly popular at all levels of appreciation.   I do not consider it a 'pretty' scene;  for me it is rather stately."   Aspens, Northern New Mexico was made with his 8x10 view camera.  With such quiet light, he needed a full second exposure which was possible because it was an unusually windless day.

 

 

Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
 Negative made 1941, gelatin-silver print made by the artist 1970s, signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, artist's Carmel studio stamp on verso of mount, 15-1/4 x 19-1/2-inch print size, dry mounted to 22 x 28-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas.  Excellent Condition,  $54,000.00

For many, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is the greatest photograph ever made. Step into the picture. We are standing on the shoulder of Highway 84, a two-lane blacktop some thirty miles from Santa Fe. Under the last light of day we see the village of Hernandez, nestled among the tree-lined banks of the Rio Chama flowing to meet the Rio Grande. Sage covers the ground. Burning pinon drifts its warm, woodsy fragrance from chimneys. The great vault of the sky places Hernandez in appropriate perspective - relative insignificance. Even the snowcapped Truchas Mountains only punctuate the meeting of heaven and earth. A broad brush stroke of brilliant white clouds spans the horizon, while just above the waxing moon beams down. The night is velvety-black and yet, somehow we can see. Each object appears to be lit from within: village, graveyard, church and sagebrush. Through Moonrise the viewer stands beyond mankind to witness humanity's reach for the stars, for redemption, for God.

 

Ansel Adams, Winter Sunrise, The Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine
 Negative made 1944, gelatin-silver print made by the artist April 1978,signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, artist's Carmel 93923 studio stamp on verso of mount, 14-1/2 x 19-3/8-inch print size, dry mounted to 22 x 28-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas.  Excellent Condition,  sold

 

Ansel never intentionally included a human or an animal in his creative landscapes.  Given his choice, he would not have had any horses in Winter Sunrise, but they were there, and he made the most of them; they added an earthly touch to the unearthly beauty of the scene.  Control, as absolute as possible, was at the heart of Ansel's photography. Mountains stayed put, but people and animals were wild cards, potentially unmanageable moving variables in Ansel's compositions.   For Ansel, the critical variable was light.
 
 

Ansel Adams, Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park

Negative made 1927, gelatin-silver print made by the artist c.1977,
signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, artist's Carmel 93921 studio stamp on verso of mount, 19-1/8 x 14-inch print size, dry mounted to 28 x 22-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas, Excellent Condition,  sold

Many believe Monolith to be the single most important photograph in Ansel's life work.  It is with this image that he forever moved from being a good photographer to being an artist, for it is with Monolith that he discovered that a photograph could communicate all the drama and passion of his soul, that he need not be confined to photographing reality, but could skew the tonal values of a print in some cases literally turning day to night, as here in Monolith or in his Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico made fourteen years later.
 

Ansel Adams, Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California

negative  1948, gelatin-silver print c.1969, signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, print #333 special edition #11 stamp on mount verso 9-3/4 x 7-3/4-inch print, excellent condition, $ 6,000.00

 
 

 

Ansel Adams, Silverton, Colorado
Negative made 1951, gelatin-silver print made by the artist 1974,
signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, artist's hand stamp on verso of mount, 15-1/4 x 19-3/4-inch print size, dry mounted to 23 x 29-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas,
Excellent Condition, $24,000.00

 

 

Ansel Adams, Fresh Snow, Yosemite Valley, California
Negative made c.1947, gelatin-silver print made by the artist 1974,
signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, artist's hand stamp on verso of mount, 15-1/4 x 19-inch print size, dry mounted to 23 x 29-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas,
Excellent Condition, $26,000.00

 

 

Ansel Adams, Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona
 Negative made 1968, gelatin-silver print #36/115 made in 1976,
signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, Portfolio VII stamp on verso of mount, 15-3/8 x 19-5/8-inch print size, dry mounted to 23 x 29-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas,
Excellent Condition, $12,000.00

An outstanding example of Mexican Baroque architecture, the Mission is known as the White Dove of the Desert.  Some three hundred years old, it serves as a Franciscan church and mission located within the Papago Indian reservation.  Ansel wrote, "In my many camera explorations in about the mission I was especially attracted by the handsome arcade of the north facade.  The north face of the arches, always in shade, reveals exciting vistas of the east tower and the central  dome."

 

 

Ansel Adams, Still Life, San Francisco, California
                            negative c. 1932, gelatin-silver print made by the artist 1974, signed by the artist on right recto of  mount, artist's hand stamp on verso of mount 19-1/2 x 14-7/8-inch print size, dry mounted to 23 x 29-inch museum board, framed with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas
Excellent Condition, $19,000.00 
 

Ansel Adams, The Pacific, North of Bodega Bay, California
                            negative c. 1960, vintage gelatin-silver print made by the artist c. 1962, signed by the artist in ink on right recto of  mount, artist's studio stamp on verso of mount 14-1/2 x 19-3/8-inch print size, dry mounted to 22 x 28-inch Crescent Illustration board, framed to 28 x 32 inches with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas
Very Good Condition, $9,000.00

 

    ANSEL ADAMS  [1902-1984]

      Half Dome, Merced River, Winter

     Yosemite National Park, California

     Negative  1938, gelatin-silver print  c.1948, signed by the artist on right recto of  mount

7 x 9-1/8-inch print size, #25 special edition stamp on verso of 13-1/2 x 16-1/2 inch mount

       framed to 16 x 20 inches with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas,  excellent condition

$5,000.00

 

  

Left image: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Carmel Highlands, California, negative 1945, gelatin-silver print made by the artist 1974, 19-1/2 x 14-1/2 inch print, excellent condition, $14,000.00

Center image: Ansel Adams, White Post and Spandrel, Columbia, California 1953, gelatin-silver print made by the artist 1974, 19-1/4 x 14 inch print, excellent condition, $12,000.00

Right image:  Ansel Adams, Graduation Dress, Yosemite Valley, California, 1948, gelatin-silver print made by the artist 1974, excellent condition, $9,000.00

  
   
   
   

    ANSEL ADAMS  [1902-1984]

      Left image:  Bridalveil Fall

     Yosemite National Park, California

     Negative 1927, gelatin-silver print c.1948

8-1/4 x 6-inch print size framed to 20 x 16 inches

excellent condition

$1,400.00

 

    ANSEL ADAMS  [1902-1984]

     Right Image:  Merced River and Half Dome

     Yosemite National Park, California

     Negative 1944, gelatin-silver print c.1948

 9-1/2 x 7-inch print framed to 20 x 16 inches

excellent condition

$1,400.00

 

 

  

ANSEL ADAMS: A BIOGRAPHY BY MARY STREET ALINDER

3 AUTOGRAPHED COPIES LEFT!  ALMOST SOLD OUT! 

We have recently discovered a couple of boxes of Mary's biography of Ansel that has been

out-of-print for several years.  It is available for the original retail price of $30.  Call or email

to reserve a new fresh copy for your collection.  A sampling of reviews:

“ennobling, moving book”          Houston Chronicle

“a loving, minutely researched portrait”          Los Angeles Times

“deeply felt”          Publishers Weekly (starred review)

 “very important, very readable”          The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)

“superb biography…richly detailed portrait of the complex, legendary figure that was Ansel Adams”                 View Camera

 

 

 
 

    ANSEL ADAMS  [1902-1984]

      Thundercloud, Lake Tahoe

Negative 1938, gelatin-silver print made by the artist c.1948

                                        18-3/8 x 14-3/8-inch print size, framed to 28 x 22 inches with ultraviolet filtering Plexiglas, very good condition, $6,800.00

 

Please call (707) 884-4884 or email to alinders@mcn.org for additional Adams inventory

 

 

 

 

RUTH BERNHARD

 Ruth Bernhard was born in Berlin on October 14, 1905 into a family immersed in art.  Her father, Lucian Bernhard, was the "father" of the German poster and designer of type forms.  Educated in Germany including two years at the Berlin Academy of Art, she emigrated to the United States in 1927, landing in New York.  The next year she became a darkroom assistant to Ralph Steiner.  She soon purchased an 8x10 view camera and began making her own  images. By 1934 Bernhard was frequently photographing women in the nude. It would be this art form for which she would eventually  become best known.
            While on vacation in California in 1935, by chance she met the renowned photographer Edward Weston. She was profoundly affected by his images, leading Bernhard to her development of a strong personal vision.  Ruth eventually settled in San Francisco in 1953.   She has lectured and conducted master classes throughout the United States. There are several books of her work and her fine pints are widely collected.

  Ruth Bernhard died in San Francisco on December 18,2006 at age 101.

   

Triangles

Price on Request

This exquisite image by Ruth Bernhard displays her use of light to harmoniously reveal form.  This particular print was made more than 30 years ago when Ruth was 70 years old and is one of the last photographs she actually printed herself.

classic torso

Ruth Bernhard  Classic Torso  Silver-gelatin print 13-1/2 x 10-1/2"  $15,000.00

 "Light is my inspiration. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends". Ruth Bernhard

 

Ruth Bernhard    Sand Dune  Silver-gelatin print 7-3/4 x 13-1/2"   $9,000.00 

"To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission."
 

More 2010 Specials

Marion Post Wolcott
"Biscuit Lady"
A member of the Wilkins family making biscuits on corn-husking day, Tallyho, North Carolina, 1939
silver-gelatin print 8-3/4"x12"
$1,200.00

MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910-90), was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey and educated at New York's New School for Social Research.  In 1938 Roy Stryker hired her as one of the few women photographers of the Farm Security Administration (FSA).  Marion photographed primarily in the south for the FSA as in this image from Virginia.

 

 

Galen Rowell
Patriarch Grove, Bristle Cone Pines, 1974
8-7/8"x13-1/4" color photograph from the numbered edition
$3,500.00 Signed

GALEN ROWELL (1940-2002) was born in Oakland, raised in Berkeley and introduced to the wilderness before he could walk.  "My interest in photography...evolved through an intense devotion to wilderness that eventually shaped all parts of my life and brought them together."   Rowell photographed all seven continents, and produced a substantial body of work that has been widely reproduced in articles and books.

 

 

Brett Weston

New York, 1944

"11x14" Silver-Gelatin CONTACT Print

$12,000.00  Signed

BRETT WESTON (1911-1993) was born the second son of Edward Weston who taught him photography as a teenager.  Brett's first of many major solo exhibitions was in 1932 at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco  This photograph was made while Brett was in the Army stationed on Long Island.  During off-duty hours he photographed New York with his 11x14 inch view camera.  His lifelong interest in surfaces and textures is clearly evident in this complex composition

 

Sebastaio Salgado

Three workers capping a wellhead

Burhan oil field, Kuwait

Negative 1991

Signed 16" x 20" Silver-Gelatin Print

$5,000.00

Brazilian born photographer SEBASTIAO SALGADO is one of the most respected documentary photographers working today. He has dedicated himself to chronicling the lives of the world's dispossessed, a work that has filled ten books and myriad exhibitions and for which he has won numerous awards. "More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of color, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike.”  When not photographing, Salgado lives in Paris with his wife, Lélia.

 

 

 

Chip Hooper 

Crashing Wave & Splash

Big Sur Coast, California

negative 1996, 20" x 24"gelatin-silver print 1998

from a sold out edition limited to 90 prints

$6,000.00

CHIP HOOPER (1962- ) while born in Miami, Florida, his family soon moved to Glen Ellyn, Illinois there he spent his childhood.  In 1991 Chip moved to Carmel, California. where his photographic style was influenced as much by the quality of light as by the environment. This photograph was taken in the Big Sur south of Carmel with his 8x10 view camera.  His choice of ½ second exposure perfectly captured the moving Pacific.

 

Brett Weston
 Garrapata Beach, Big Sur, 1954
11"x14" silver-gelatin print made by the artist, signed
$12,000.00

 

Ansel Adams
 Robert Boardman Howard, Sculptor
11"x14" silver-gelatin print made by the artist, signed
$6,500.00

Wolf Von Dem Bussche
 Twin Towers, New York City, 1976
16-1/2 "x22-1/2" silver-gelatin print made 1979 #15/90
$4,200.00, signed

Wright Morris
 House with Dead Tree, Virginia, 1940
8"x10" silver-gelatin print made by the artist
$2,400.00 signed

 

 

Clarence White
In the Orchard
8"x 6" Photogravure from Camera Work
$1,200.00

 

Wright Morris
 Log Ends, Ohio, 1942
8"x10" silver-gelatin print by the artist
$3,000.00 signed

Jim Alinder
Ansel & Half Dome, 1982
13-1/2"x10-1/2" Pigmented Giclee print 2000
$500.00 signed

Harold Edgerton
 Tennis Forehand, c.1940
multiple-high speed strobe
8-3/4"x12" silver-gelatin print
$2,500.00 signed

John Sexton
 Aspen Dream
Near Aspen Colorado
11"x14" image made by the artist, signed
$1,000.00

Alan Ross
 Pfeiffer Beach
Big Sur, California
11"x14" image made by the artist, signed
$900.00

 


 

Christopher Burkett
Resplendent Leaves at Sunset
Oregon 2000, Printed 2004
10-1/2"x10-1/2" artist made & signed print #137
$750.00 with deluxe edition book

 

Christopher Burkett
Resplendent Light
Deluxe Edition Book #137
comes with print on left
 
   

 

 

Solomon D. Butcher
Duck Hunting in Western Nebraska, c. 1890s
Solio Print, gold toned on printing out paper, 6" x 7-3/4" contact print
Butcher's slow glass plates couldn't stop the ducks, so he drew them into the plate.
$1,500.00


 

E.S. Curtis
Navaho Medicine-Man
Photogravure 7-1/4"x5-3/8"
$500.00

 

Clarence H. White
Letitia Felix
Photogravure from Camera Work, 8-1/4"x5-5/8"
$800.00

 

D.O. Hill & R. Adamson
Mrs. Rigby
Photogravure from Camera Work 8"x6"
$900.00

 

D.O. Hill & R. Adamson
Dr. Munro
Photogravure from Camera Work 8-1/4"x6-1/8"
$900.00

 

 

 

 

 Photographs by Jim Alinder (also visit www.jimalinderphotography.com for more)

 

THRILL, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1969

 

PICTURE SPOT, Great Meteor Crater, Arizona, 1970

 

Ten Half-Buried Cadillacs, 1974

 
 

Inspiration, 1978

 

 

Ansel Adams, 1984

 

  

Ansel with a straight and a fine print of Moonrise, 1981

 

 

  

 

 

 

Conforming Cloud, Monument Valley

 

Stengel Beach, The Sea Ranch

 

 

 

 

Tomatoes in Blue Bowl, 1998

From the Series Markets of Provence

 

Goat Cheese, 2004

From the Series Markets of Provence

  

 

 

 
     

Imogen Cunningham, 1967

From the Series Art of the Automobile

 

  

Mother & Child, Somalia, 1965

Z & Me, 1973