GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK — Commemorative postage stamps honoring photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams were celebrated on Wednesday, June 26, at Grand Teton National Park’s Snake River Overlook, a vista he immortalized in one of his most famous photos.
The park’s Deputy Superintendent Robin Martin and Jackson and Moose Postmaster Aleicia Dickson presented the stamps, an assortment of 16 of Adams’ most well-known photos.
A similar celebration was held in honor of the new stamps earlier this summer in Yosemite National Park, another of Adams’ favorite subjects. Other stamps in the collection feature his photos of Denali, Sequoia and Mount Rainier National Parks.
Adams’ photo of the Snake River Overlook was taken as part of a photographic mural project commissioned by the Dept. of the Interior in 1941.
