Sorry to hear about your mother's death, Joe.
Ansel Adams ran a commercial photo studio through most of his life. The
reality of that is he did whatever was needed to make a buck. A lot of
the work that is vernerated so highly was done after he retired as a
commercal photographer and was done more as a paying hobby.
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Joseph Tainter wrote:
My mother died last summer at 87. As a memento, my father's Christmas
card this year has a photo taken of her in 1935 at Dominican College,
San Rafael, California. The posed photo shows three small groups of
women talking in front of a college building, and one walking toward
the door. There are nine women in the photo altogether. (Dominican was
then a women's college. I don't know if it still is.) Why am I
reporting this here? Because the photo was taken by Ansel Adams. In
his hungry days he apparently had a business doing photos of students.
The shot at Dominican was for a brochure, and was arranged by a friend
of his at the college, Sister Thomas.
I became serious about photography over 40 years ago, and all this
time neither of my parents told me about this.
I just talked to my father, who is still in California. He says that
he has 2 or 3 copies of a newspaper in which the photo appeared and
will send me one. Unfortunately all he and my mother clipped was the
photo. My father doesn't know which newspaper it was from.
Joe
