Ansel Stamps

You may have heard the Post Office is issuing a commemorative set of Ansel Adams stamps this coming May 15th, but you might not know that the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park offers "Modern Replicas" of the stamp series pictures for reasonable prices. "Each digitally-mastered replica is made from an original photograph to capture the look, feel and luster that Ansel intended...Modern Replicas come in a variety of image sizes, up to 40x50 inches."

Just go to the Gallery website and navigate to Shop Ansel Adams Exclusives > Modern Replicas. There are three pages of results, with the stamp images highlighted in the captions. Here's a direct link.

Personally, I think I'll just get a sheet of the 16 stamps when they come out and have that framed!

Mike
(Hat tip to Carl)

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Featured Comments from:

Sal Santamaura: "My roll of 100 Forever flag stamps is getting close to running out, after more than five years. Not much physical mail gets sent from our house these days. Nonetheless, considering that the cost of a First Class stamp will go up again in July, and the Adams stamps are that 'Forever' type, I just pre-ordered eight sheets of them. What better way for a landscape photo enthusiast to pay postage in the next, who knows, decade?"

Robert Landrigan: "I deeply love that each of these stamps bears the legend of Ansel Adam, Forever USA. Ya, it's the postage value—but as one of the best known documentarians of American wilderness...it strikes me as fitting."

Comments

[Dennis]

thanks for the tip! Love the post office stamps.

[Dennis]

Agreed on the pricing re: your comment of stamp set versus print. I have Yosemite and the Range of Light.

[James Bullard]

Me too, Mike. I don't have wall space for all those 'replica prints".

[Chuck Albertson]

Don't forget to order the First Day of Issue cover.

[JoeB]

Mike thank you for the advance notice of the AA stamps. I preordered a few sheets of them and will have at least one framed. Would make a great gift for another photog addict.

[David Dyer-Bennet]

As to the stuff in the gallery, they're experts at pricing it just at the point where I never quite get around to committing, across decades. Nearly certainly a mistake on my part, but so it goes.

The stamps, though, might well buy a sheet of those. I've got sheets of several of the space stamps.

[jp41]

The fourth row, third image features “Road After Rain, Northern California” (1960). As a thumbnail, I couldn't belief I was seeing an Adam's photograph of a road with a delibrately slanted horizon. Upon closer inspection, the trees and fence posts are essentially vertical, so the slanted horizon was the true depiction of that landscape.

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