2024 First-Class Forever Stamp,Photographs by Ansel Adams: Rock & Grass, Moraine Lake, Sequoia National Park
# 5854g - 2024 First-Class Forever Stamp - Photographs by Ansel Adams: Rock & Grass, Moraine Lake, Sequoia National Park
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US #5854g
2024 Rock and Grass, Moraine Lake, Sequoia National Park, California, 1936 – 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 1936. Pictures a rock and grass poking through the water at Moraine Lake in Sequoia National Park in 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 his life, Ansel Adams had over two dozen cameras. It all began with his father’s Kodak Bullseye. His father took the camera apart to show how it worked, sparking Adams’s imagination.
When he was 12, Adams’s father gave him a Kodak Brownie No. 1, which was already 10 years old at the time. Adams received his first “serious camera,” as a gift from a cousin around 1920. That camera was likely a 1A Speed Kodak or Graflex 1A.
From the early 1920s to the early 1950s, Adams most frequently wrote about using the Gundlach Korona View in both the 4 x 5 and 6½ x 8½ sizes. He used several Contax cameras. Adams once shot two dozen rolls (over 860 photos) over a month in the High Sierra. He called it “the single piece of equipment most responsive to the hurly-burly of real life.”
Adams’s expertise was also in demand from camera manufacturers. His recommendations are credited with helping to vastly improve the Hasselblad 500C. Adams liked the camera’s light weight and multiple lenses.
From 1948 to 1984, Adams consulted with Polaroid, excited by their “one-step camera.” He tested films and cameras and served as a spokesperson. Adams believed Polaroid could capture tonal qualities that other processes couldn’t. He published a book to promote Polaroid cameras for art: Polaroid Land Photography.
US #5854g
2024 Rock and Grass, Moraine Lake, Sequoia National Park, California, 1936 – 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 1936. Pictures a rock and grass poking through the water at Moraine Lake in Sequoia National Park in 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 his life, Ansel Adams had over two dozen cameras. It all began with his father’s Kodak Bullseye. His father took the camera apart to show how it worked, sparking Adams’s imagination.
When he was 12, Adams’s father gave him a Kodak Brownie No. 1, which was already 10 years old at the time. Adams received his first “serious camera,” as a gift from a cousin around 1920. That camera was likely a 1A Speed Kodak or Graflex 1A.
From the early 1920s to the early 1950s, Adams most frequently wrote about using the Gundlach Korona View in both the 4 x 5 and 6½ x 8½ sizes. He used several Contax cameras. Adams once shot two dozen rolls (over 860 photos) over a month in the High Sierra. He called it “the single piece of equipment most responsive to the hurly-burly of real life.”
Adams’s expertise was also in demand from camera manufacturers. His recommendations are credited with helping to vastly improve the Hasselblad 500C. Adams liked the camera’s light weight and multiple lenses.
From 1948 to 1984, Adams consulted with Polaroid, excited by their “one-step camera.” He tested films and cameras and served as a spokesperson. Adams believed Polaroid could capture tonal qualities that other processes couldn’t. He published a book to promote Polaroid cameras for art: Polaroid Land Photography.