2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Photographs by Ansel Adams: Denali & Wonder lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947
# 5854d - 2024 First-Class Forever Stamp - Photographs by Ansel Adams: Denali & Wonder lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947
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US #5854d
2024 Denali and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947 – 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 1947. Pictures Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, Alaska.
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: In 1947, Ansel Adams received a Guggenheim Fellowship to visit every US National Park. That fellowship led him to Alaska, which he considered the closest “to the wilderness perfection [he] sought.”
Adams spent a week at the ranger cabin near Wonder Lake in Denali National Park in the summer of 1947. Mount McKinley (as it was known at the time) was almost constantly shrouded in clouds. Then one evening, he focused his camera on the mountain before going to bed. He awoke at midnight and waited to take the photo at sunrise. At 1:30 a.m., Adams watched the peak turn pink, then the sky turned gold, and before long, the entire mountain was bathed in sunlight. His timing was perfect, as the mountain was once again hidden by clouds within thirty minutes. The photo he captured that day, Denali and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, is featured on this 2024 US stamp.
Of the experience, Adams said, “I saw more clearly the value of true wilderness and the danger of diluting its finest areas.” He “resolved to dedicate as much of [his] time and energy to it as [he] could.”
While working on President Jimmy Carter’s official White House portrait in 1979, he expressed his concerns. The following year, Carter passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the largest single expansion of protected land in history.
US #5854d
2024 Denali and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, 1947 – 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 1947. Pictures Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, Alaska.
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: In 1947, Ansel Adams received a Guggenheim Fellowship to visit every US National Park. That fellowship led him to Alaska, which he considered the closest “to the wilderness perfection [he] sought.”
Adams spent a week at the ranger cabin near Wonder Lake in Denali National Park in the summer of 1947. Mount McKinley (as it was known at the time) was almost constantly shrouded in clouds. Then one evening, he focused his camera on the mountain before going to bed. He awoke at midnight and waited to take the photo at sunrise. At 1:30 a.m., Adams watched the peak turn pink, then the sky turned gold, and before long, the entire mountain was bathed in sunlight. His timing was perfect, as the mountain was once again hidden by clouds within thirty minutes. The photo he captured that day, Denali and Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska, is featured on this 2024 US stamp.
Of the experience, Adams said, “I saw more clearly the value of true wilderness and the danger of diluting its finest areas.” He “resolved to dedicate as much of [his] time and energy to it as [he] could.”
While working on President Jimmy Carter’s official White House portrait in 1979, he expressed his concerns. The following year, Carter passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the largest single expansion of protected land in history.