Imogen Cunningham
Ansel Adams
The F64 Group consisted of seven San Francisco photographers: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston. They all had the same photographic style, their images were all sharply focused and precisely framed. They formed this group to for two reasons. Number one: they wanted to go up against the more popular Pictorialism style which had dominated much of the early 1900, and number two: they wanted to introduce a new Modernist aesthetic of properly exposed images of the natural form and found objects. . The two photographers who put this group together were Ansel Adams and Willard Van Dyke.
The late 1920s and early 1930s were time of substantial social and economic unrest in the United States, they were going through the Great Depression. The people searched for relief from their everyday hardships. For different reasons the West was seen as the future for economic recovery and people sought out news and images because it was "a land of hope" and gave them something to look forward to. They were increasingly attracted to images of photographers like Ansel Adams, whose strikingly detailed photographs of the American West were seen as "pictorial testimony…of inspiration and redemptive power.
The F64 Group consisted of seven San Francisco photographers: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston. They all had the same photographic style, their images were all sharply focused and precisely framed. They formed this group to for two reasons. Number one: they wanted to go up against the more popular Pictorialism style which had dominated much of the early 1900, and number two: they wanted to introduce a new Modernist aesthetic of properly exposed images of the natural form and found objects. . The two photographers who put this group together were Ansel Adams and Willard Van Dyke.
The late 1920s and early 1930s were time of substantial social and economic unrest in the United States, they were going through the Great Depression. The people searched for relief from their everyday hardships. For different reasons the West was seen as the future for economic recovery and people sought out news and images because it was "a land of hope" and gave them something to look forward to. They were increasingly attracted to images of photographers like Ansel Adams, whose strikingly detailed photographs of the American West were seen as "pictorial testimony…of inspiration and redemptive power.
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