Ansel Adams/AP via Sotheby's

A print of 'Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" likely created in the 1950s or 1960s. The image, which sold for a record $722,000 on Monday, June 21, is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography being offered by Sotheby's as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale. The largest number of works were taken by Adams, about 400 Polaroid and non-Polaroid images. The two-day sale concludes Tuesday evening, June 22.

Ansel Adams photograph sets auction record

A historic sale of works by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography set records for Ansel Adams and Lucas Samaras during a two-day auction of iconic images from the Polaroid corporate collection that continued Tuesday.

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