'When I first saw the photograph, I didn’t recognize it as an Adams. Josie R. Johnson, a curatorial fellow at the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, in Stanford, Calif., where I teach, planned to include it in an exhibition. She’d chosen the image for its otherworldly qualities. “It sticks with you,” she said, “for being such an enigma.”

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