GROUP F.64

loose association of photographers who introduced a style of sharply detailed photography to California and laid the foundation for the West Coast school of photography. The group, formed in 1932, constituted a revolt against soft-focused, academic photography then prevalent on the West Coast of the United States. The principal members of Group f.64 were Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, and Willard Van Dyke. The name of the group is taken from a camera diaphragm aperture setting that gives particularly good resolution and depth of field. In 1932 the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco presented an exhibit of works by Group f.64, arousing only mild public and critical interest. By 1935, however, when the group disbanded, its ideas had begun to change the direction of photography.