The Tetons and the Snake River

The Tetons and the Snake River is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1942, at the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming.

The picture was taken from an elevated point of view and depicts the Snake River in a mountainous valley.

A dramatically lit black-and-white photograph depicts a large river, which snakes from the bottom right to the center left of the picture.

In the top half of the frame, there is a tall mountain range, dark but clearly covered in snow.

[1][2] A mural-sized print of this photograph was sold for $988,000 at Sotheby's New York, on December 14, 2020, the highest price ever reached by an Ansel Adams work.