Ansel Adams Postage Stamps

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USPS announced that a set of stamps with 16 iconic images of Ansel Adams will be launched in 2024
Date for launch is not yet set

U.S. Postal Service Reveals Additional Stamps for 2024 - Newsroom - About.usps.com

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the U.S. Postal Service announced four new stamp subjects for 2024. This group, along with the stamps announced in October, make up only a partial list, with more to be revealed in the weeks and months ahead. All stamp designs are preliminary and subject to change.
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vitaly66 said:
Something a bit painful in this, seeing his exquisite large format images reduced to the size of postage stamps.
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Agreed, but not as bad as seeing his images on a Hill's Brothers coffee can back in the late Sixties. Of course, those are now "collectibles", and worth a small fortune.
 
Somehow the D&D imagery seems more appropriate... Ah well, could be worse. At least our postage isn't as fugly as our coinage.
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Agreed, but not as bad as seeing his images on a Hill's Brothers coffee can back in the late Sixties. Of course, those are now "collectibles", and worth a small fortune.
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No Way! You're right! I never knew this. Well I'll be...

My parents were Italian and drank Italian espresso and Maxwell House coffee so I missed out on this collectible.
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Ansel Adams on a Coffee Can

Imagine my surprise seeing Ansel Adams' Yosemite Valley, Winter (1959) on an old coffee can. I had to find out how this famous photograph came to be on an everyday object. In 1969, Hills Brothers Coffee in San Francisco with Adams' permission reproduced the photo on its coffee cans as a...
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Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc. | All Works | The MFAH Collections

(.A) Can, (.B) Lid. Coffee Can with an Ansel Adams image printed on the side of the can.
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One of Ansel Adams’s first jobs was with the concessions firm in Yosemite National Park making photographs designed to draw more visitors. In the 1960s, a market for art photography did not exist, and Adams supported himself by selling as many prints as possible, working for companies like Kodak and occasionally with firms like Hills Brothers Coffee. The company was one of the largest coffee sellers in the United States when they requested Adams’s Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, California for their coffee cans. Adams saw commercial ventures like this one as a way to get his photography into more people’s hands.
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Very cool indeed. But also kind of ironic for the consummate large format photographer, no? Think they capture all the correct zones on those little suckers?
 
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