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The f.64 Revolution in Photography |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: Darwin Marable |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,899 Words, 12,400 Characters |
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Modernism in photography was an integral part of photography in New York during the early years of the twentieth century as evidenced by the photography of Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Steichen and Charles Sheeler, both of whom were also painters. However, the influence of modernism in California wasn't felt until later in the 1920s and 1930s.
In the fall of 1932, a group of Northern California photographers, mostly from the San Francisco Bay area, defied tradition by obtaining an exhibition at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The exhibition was truly revolutionary, because it was unusual for museums anywhere in the United States, even in New York City, to recognize and exhibit photography as a fine art. Furthermore, these young Calif...
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...er forty years, and established a standard by which American fine art photography was measured. While postmodern photography seems to dominate the world of photography today, even it is defined by its challenge to the canon established in 1932 by an informal group of Northern California photographers who joined forces for a few years, made their mark, and then quietly went their separate ways.
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