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Monday, 19 September 2011

Pure Photography - F64 Group+Its followers

Members of F64 (GREAT DEPTH OF FIELD) Group - San Francisco Photographers 1932

- Ansel Adams




- Imogen Cunningham

Succulent, 1920. This was the first image of Cunningham's to be in the Group f/64 exhibit
Between 1923 and 1925 Cunningham became increasingly interested in Botanical Photography 


- Edward Weston





- Sonia Noskowiak





- John Paul Edwards




- Henry Swift




- Willard Van Dyke

F/64 brought the new West Coast vision of straight photography to national attention and influence. This first exhibition consisted of 80 photographs, including 10 by Adams, 9 each by Cunningham, Edwards, Noskowiak, Swift, Van Dyke and Edward Weston, and 4 each by Holder, Kanaga, Lavenson and Brett Weston. Edward Weston's prints were priced at $15 each; all of the others were $10 each. The show ran for six weeks. 

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