Moonrise Hernandez

Ansel Adams 1902-1984 Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
The riveting Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is perhaps the best known and most sought after photograph in the field of fine-art photography.
The story of the making of the photograph Moonrise, Hernandez , New Mexico is legendary. Ansel's description in Examples: The Making of Forty Photographs is oft repeated, and quite dramatic. We have brought together several vignettes that put a little more perspective on what lead up to the dramatic moment on a lonely highway at 4:05 PM (local time), October 31, 1941.
TheTamshee says: click here to continue this fasinating account by Ansel's son Michael who was only eight on that fateful day.