2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Photographs by Ansel Adams: Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California, 1934
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US #5854b
2024 Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California, 1962 – Ansel Adams
• Part of the set honoring influential 20th century American photographer Ansel Adams and marks the 40th anniversary of his death
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Ansel Adams
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: May 15, 2024
First Day City: Yosemite National Park, California
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 16
Tagging: Phosphor, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate Ansel Adams and the huge impact his photography had on the art world and environmentalism in the United States.
About the stamp design: Shows a black-and-white photograph taken by Adams in 1962. Pictures an oak tree in the Sierra foothills of California.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park, California.
History the stamps represent: During World War II, Ansel Adams turned his camera to a new subject – Japanese internees at the Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of people of Japanese descent were taken to relocation camps. Adams was invited to photograph daily life in one of these camps. It was a personal assignment, as a family friend in poor health was among those relocated.
Adams visited the camp on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1943 and 1944. He took photos capturing family life in the barracks as well as internees welding, farming, and making clothes. Adams also photographed them playing baseball and volleyball, fixing cars, reading newspapers, and raising livestock. His photos were meant to show that these internees were regular, loyal American citizens like anyone else.
In 1944, with the war still raging, Adams staged an exhibition and published a book of the photos titled Born Free and Equal. Many were outraged, the exhibition was quickly shut down, and the books were removed from shelves. Adams explained, “The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair… by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.”
US #5854b
2024 Oak Tree, Sunset City, Sierra Foothills, California, 1962 – Ansel Adams
• Part of the set honoring influential 20th century American photographer Ansel Adams and marks the 40th anniversary of his death
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Ansel Adams
Value: 68¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: May 15, 2024
First Day City: Yosemite National Park, California
Quantity Issued: 20,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 16
Tagging: Phosphor, Block Tag
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate Ansel Adams and the huge impact his photography had on the art world and environmentalism in the United States.
About the stamp design: Shows a black-and-white photograph taken by Adams in 1962. Pictures an oak tree in the Sierra foothills of California.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park, California.
History the stamps represent: During World War II, Ansel Adams turned his camera to a new subject – Japanese internees at the Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of people of Japanese descent were taken to relocation camps. Adams was invited to photograph daily life in one of these camps. It was a personal assignment, as a family friend in poor health was among those relocated.
Adams visited the camp on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1943 and 1944. He took photos capturing family life in the barracks as well as internees welding, farming, and making clothes. Adams also photographed them playing baseball and volleyball, fixing cars, reading newspapers, and raising livestock. His photos were meant to show that these internees were regular, loyal American citizens like anyone else.
In 1944, with the war still raging, Adams staged an exhibition and published a book of the photos titled Born Free and Equal. Many were outraged, the exhibition was quickly shut down, and the books were removed from shelves. Adams explained, “The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair… by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.”