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Gualala, California, USA Contact us by phone (707) 884-4884; or by email alinders@mcn.org
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Specialists in the Photographs of Ansel Adams
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James G. Alinder & Mary Street Alinder Address: Phone: 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. Framing Sales tax is not
applicable to purchases billed and shipped to an out-of-state address.
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© Copyright 2010 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. |
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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
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Ansel Adams,
Fresh Snow, Yosemite Valley, California
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Ansel Adams, Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier del Bac,
Tucson, Arizona 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."
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Ansel Adams,
Still Life, San Francisco, California |

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
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![]() ![]() ![]() 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 |
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![]() ![]() 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
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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
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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 |
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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. 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. 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." |
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Photographs by Jim Alinder (also visit
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![]() PICTURE SPOT, Great Meteor Crater, Arizona, 1970
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![]() Ten Half-Buried Cadillacs, 1974
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Inspiration, 1978
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Ansel Adams, 1984
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Ansel with a straight and a fine print of Moonrise, 1981
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![]() Conforming Cloud, Monument Valley
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![]() Stengel Beach, The Sea Ranch |
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![]() Tomatoes in Blue Bowl, 1998 From the Series Markets of Provence
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![]() Goat Cheese, 2004 From the Series Markets of Provence |
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![]() Imogen Cunningham, 1967 |
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![]() Mother & Child, Somalia, 1965 |
![]() Z & Me, 1973 |
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