Ansel Adams and Ella Young

Ella Young recognized Ansel Adams talent early, and was instrumental in funding the publication of his first collection; photographs of Taos, illustrating a book by Mary Austin. In 1966 Independent researcher James D. Cain recorded interviews with Adams and other friends of Ella Young. His son has made these recordings available on the Internet Archive. He talks about ,eeting Ella Young at parties in San Francisco 1929, traveling with Georgia O’Keefe in Taos, Ella Young’s Visual Transference, and Ella’s legacy.

In the interview Adams mentions “The Shasta Fellowship” but stops himself from saying more because Cain, the interviewer, hadn’t already been told about it by another interviewee, Gavin Arthur. Adam’s tone is a half in jest, but apparently he was a man to keep an occult secret. A transcript of this interview, and many others, is available in eBook and paperback in Ella Young Remembered.