Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is America’s most popular landscape photographer. His images of Yosemite and the High Sierra’s are iconic and the technical quality he set remains the standard for landscape photography across the world.

Edward Henry Weston, March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958 has been called ‘one of the most innovative and influential American photographers’ and ‘one of the masters of 20th century photography’.

Over the course of his 40 year career he photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects including landscapes, still life, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, and whimsical parodies.

In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 x 10 view camera.

Some of his most famous photographs were taken of trees and rocks near Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.

In 1947 Weston was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and he soon stopped photographing. He spent the remaining years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.

Huntington Witherill trained initially in classical music (similar to Ansel Adams) but switched to photography in 1970. For the past 50 years he has become one of the most recognised and sought after West Coast photographers.

He studied with many of the leading West Coast photographer in th 1970’s including AL Weber, Steve Crouch and attended Ansel Adams workshops.

His photography emphasises composition, technical proficiency and design.

In recent years Huntington has moved away from producing traditional silver gelatine photographs and has embraced the digital era - producing very high quality images in limited editions.

Paul Strand was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1890 and passed away in 1976, in Orgeral, Yvelines, France.

He alongside other modernist photographers like Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th Century.

In 1936 he helped found the Photography League which was a co-operative of photographers who banded together around a range of common social and creative causes.

Strand’s diverse body of work spans 6 decades and covers many genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.

We purchased the photographs Iris, Maine, 1928, Young Boy Gondeville, Charante, France 1950 and Fisherman, Gaspe 1936, all by Paul Strand, in 2006 from the Aperture Gallery, NY

Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, born in 1895 in NJ and passed away in 1965 in San Francisco, CA.

She was best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange’s photographs influenced the development of Documentary Photography and humanised the consequences of the Great Depression.

In our photograph, Florence Owens Thompson, 1903-1983 was an American woman and the subject of ‘Migrant Mother’, Nipoma, California, taken in 1936.

In the late 1960’s, Bill Hendrix found the original Migrant Mother photograph along with 31 other vintage photographs by Lange, in a dumpster at the San Jose Chamber of Commerce!

In October 2005, an anonymous bidder paid $296,000 at Sotherby’s for the 32 rediscovered Lange photographs, which was 6 times their pre bid estimate.

The Redwood Gallery is offering a Limited Edition photogravure print of the Migrant Mother, which we purchased in 2006 from the Aperture Gallery, NY.

Roman Loranc is a self taught photographer who began his journey as an artist in the 1960’s when he received a 35mm camera for his first communion.

Over time he learnt to print his own and continues to do so. Loranc uses a 4x5 Linhof camera and shoots the majority of his photographs with a 210 Nikkor lens, using Kodak’s classic Tri-X film, and prints on multigrade fibre paper.

The drama of the landscapes is reproduced through a variable split toning (sepia and selenium) technique. The photographer does all the printing, spotting and archival mounting.

Loranc says ‘I think about how interconnected the world is, when I am out on a crisp winters morning, shooting a stand of native Oaks, I see Oak galls hanging from the trees. These were once used to make the pyrogallol chemicals I use to develop my negatives. It is healthy to remember that we are often linked to the natural world in ways we don’t even suspect’

Henry Gilpin was for 30 years a vital influence on the Monterey School of Photography. He passed away in 2012.

Henry Gilpin took photographs all his adult life. He had a varied career from being a pilot in WW2, to becoming the Chief of Detectives in Monterey in the 1950’s, and later as the Head of the Photographic School at Monterey College.

His work has been a showcase for classic images and very high standards of dark room craft and technique. As the images in this collection show, his work focusses on form, space, light and shadow.

His prints are included in many public and private collections across America, as well as prestigious museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

He had always wanted his work to remain affordable and accessible whilst retaining the highest print quality possible.

We anticipate all his photographs will significantly appreciate in value. The Redwood Gallery has a unique collection of Henry Gilpin’s work.

Chip Hooper remembered the first time he saw Ansel Adams’ haunting image of ‘Moonrise’ , Hernandez, New Mexico.

‘Someone gave me a book of Ansel Adams’ photographs and I saw “Moonrise”, it blew my mind’

As a kid growing up in Chicago, Hooper was used to the urban environment, rather than the bold, open landscapes depicted in high contrast by photographers of the West.

Inspired by the sharp focus images of Adams’ photographs, even in the digital age Hooper employed the classical technique of using an 8 x 10 view camera to capture the sweeping seascapes that he photographed on film. He explained that he used such a big camera because ‘you get an 8 x 10 negative that allows you to make a tremendous print. Its like how some people write in English, some people write in Spanish, or French but this is the language I’m using right now to best say what I want to say’

As the youngest in a long line of photographic artists who’ve left a still evolving imprint on the Monterey Peninsular, Hooper’s work on seascapes and coast lines brought him international recognition.

Sadly, Chip Hooper passed away at his home in Carmel, on March 5 2016.

Paul Caponigro was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied with Minor White and has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Caponigro’s work is included in the collections of the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Norton Simon Museum, Museum of New Mexico and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society “Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship”,in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2001.

Paul Caponigro is recognised for the sensitivity of his approach to the subject and notably for his images of flowers, and is today one of the most revered black and white photographers in the US.

Alan Ross is an internationally respected photographer and educator who worked side by side with Ansel Adams as his photographic assistant. He knows Adams’ approach and technique perhaps better than any other photographer today.

As an artist, Alan is best known for his tonally exquisite black and white photographs of the American West.

As an educator, he specializes in helping photographers at any level, using all formats and styles, realise and express their photographic vision.

He also continues to be the exclusive printer of the Yosemite Special Edition negatives, an assignment Adams selected for him in 1975.

Stu Levy was born in 1948 in Cincinnati, OH. He has photographed fragile landscapes where he felt ‘a sense of timelessness’.

Levy maintains the landscape however, is only his stimulus or point of departure so asks ‘what else is the landscape’ and the ‘what else’ is what he tried to photograph.

In 1979 he attended a workshop in Yosemite National Park taught by Ansel Adams. This followed a visit to the Weston Gallery in Carmel, where he was shown many Ansel Adams prints, several by Edward Weston and a few by Paul Strand. He went on to teach at the Ansel Adams workshops during the 1980’s.

Ryuijie was born in Otaru, Japan in 1950. During his military service his interest in the arts began to materialise.

While stationed in Guam, Ryuijie learned underwater photography whilst pursuing scuba diving.

After his tour he attended college on the Monterey Peninsular and began a successful career in lithography.

Ryuijie has pursued his ‘photographic vision’ for over 30 years and has acquired a reputation for exquisite platinum/palladium prints.

The Redwood Gallery has a selection of his beautiful platinum prints.

Robert Osborne has been making eloquent images in the world of fine art photography for nearly half a century. He has travelled over much of the US and to many foreign countries in search of compelling photographic subjects.

He has been a travel photographer, a writer, a large format scenic photographer, a digital fine art photographer and a workshop instructor and lecturer.

Robert Osborne’s photographs have been and continue to be displayed in museums , galleries, and private collections. He has been published in books, magazines and calendars as well as being bought and sold in art auctions.

Ten years ago he started working on a series of images of cowboys, and has opened a fine art photography gallery in Livingston, Montana.

Four years ago he began photographing Indians of the Northern Plains.

We are proud to have a range work from his ‘large format’ period in the 1970’s which represents some of the best value silver gelatin work in the collection.

John Sexton was born in 1953 and lives in Carmel Valley, California. Respected as a photographer, Master Print Maker and workshop instructor, he is best known for his luminous, quiet photographs of the natural environment.

His photographs are included in permanent collections, exhibitions and numerous publications throughout the world.

He is the Director of the John Sexton photography workshop programme and teaches numerous photography workshops in the US and abroad, emphasising printing technique and mastery of the zone system.

He has presented lectures for, among others, Boston University, George Eastman House, The Friends of Photography, LA, County Museum of Art, The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and the Seattle Art Museum.

The Redwood Gallery has a stunning photograph of trees in the Aspens Forest, Colorado for sale today.

Gerhard Bock has been actively involved in photography since the early 1990’s. He started by focussing on the ‘grand landscape’ and nature untouched by man, but over the years his vision evolved and he now photographs everything. Originally a color photographer he has switched to almost entirely black and white.

His passion is platinum/palladium printing, a medium that suits his images perfectly. Platinum/Palldium is considered one of the most archival forms of photographic expression, and has long been prized for its beautiful tonal scale and smoothness.

He prints on the finest 100% rag papers, his top choice being Arches Platine, a specially formatted platinum printing paper from France. All his prints are corner mounted onto archival mount board and then overmatted with a matching archival window mat.

Originally from Germany, Gerhard now lives in Davis, a small college town in California’s central valley, with his wife, daughters, a neurotic Great Dane and two cats named Elvis and Priscilla.

Gordon Hastings is a highly experienced and versatile photographer. Over the last 45 years he has specialised in photographing landmark sites across California and the South West.

All his images are hand printed on traditional silver gelatin paper. Each image is limited to a maximum of 24 prints. Hastings also provides a written narrative for each photograph setting the context for the location and image.

Steve Harris is a West Coast photographer and collector. He is steeped in the Monterey tradition and takes images of locations made popular by Weston and Adams. He prints his own work on traditional silver gelatin paper.

Roy Jones is a well known and highly respected photographic tutor who worked at the Monterey College. He worked closely with Henry Gilpin and is part of the mainstream of the Monterey photographic tradition.

Jones’s images are sought after and increasingly scarce.

Wensing uses medium format cameras and converts the negative onto a digital format for printing.

He has been an attendee of Alan Ross’s workshops in Yosemite.

This photograph demonstrates the quality of combining traditional methods with new technology to produce high quality images.

Conley is a fine art landscape photographer who specialises in creating traditional black and white prints.

His meticulously crafted prints made utilising traditional dark room processes, are made in small limited editions of 40 prints.

His work has been widely exhibited and collected by private collectors and museums worldwide.

Conley’s photographs represent a balanced simplicity that evokes his sense of wonder and reverence for the natural world.

Garrod lives in Monterey, California and his beautiful black and white images are an essential part of Monterey’s historic photographic legacy.

Garrod is a cohort of Bret Weston and a dedicated student of Minor White and Ansel Adams.

Several decades after John had his first Eastman Kodak Brownie box camera he found himself sitting next to an Associated Press Sports photographer in Law School. He taught John the basics of development and printing. Later in his studio and darkroom he found a glorious window for artistic license.

John worked alongside his son and other photographers based at the VERVE gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A large format photographer of the inner landscape, Farmer was born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1947.

He relocated to Santa Barbara in 1978 and began his body of work

His work has appeared in countless exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the US. Many of his images are in private and corporate collections across the world.

John Wimberly was born in 1945. He is an American Fine Art photographer with a focus on landscapes and human figures, as well as mining camps and Native American Rock Art from the American West.

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Yale University Art Gallery, among others.