At 06:19 PM 06/22/2001, you wrote:
>That was the other photogs nickname for Ansel Adams technique.
>They use to call it the "School of F64 Photography."
Imogen Cunningham joined the band of enthusiastic photographers founded by
Ansel Adams and Willard Van Dyke in 1934 under the name of "Group f/64."
Histories of photography refer to the f/64 Group as an organized reform
movement. It was not. It was a casual, informal group of friends who met
together from time to time in a photography gallery. They met to talk about
photography and to show their prints to each other and to the public. In
the fall of 1932, Ansel Adams and Willard Van Dyke proposed that they
become better organized to implement the spread of their ideas, and Van
Dyke suggested the name. "f/64" was chosen because the members of the group
were dedicated to the honest, sharply defined image, and the lens opening,
f/64, provides the ultimate in resolution and depth of field. Adams felt
that the membership should be limited to "those workers who are striving to
define photography as an art form by a simple and direct presentation
through purely photographic methods." Imogen recalled later that the
adoption of the name and the criterion for membership did nothing to
formalize the group. "There were no officers, no regular meetings, no dues."
(from http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/imogen.htm)
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Henry Posner
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