Exhibition – Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64 February 1, 2008

Hours: MF 9-5, SS 12-5
Debating Modern Photography presents the lively artistic debate that gripped California photographers in the 1930s. On one side is the modernist work of Group f/64: powerful images by photographers whose reputations are now established, such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. The other, representation the more popular approach of the time, includes the soft-focus Pictorialist photographs of artists less well-know today, such as Johan Hagemeyer, William Mortensen, and Anne Brigman. Although the sharp-focus aesthetic of Group f/64 ultimately became the prevailing art-photography style for much of the 20th century, this exhibition returns to the moment when this triumph was not yet assured.

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