Group f/64
グループf/64 / 1932–1935 / Style / Photography Movements
The straight-photography manifesto of Weston, Adams and their circle, flying the flag of edge-to-edge sharpness at f/64 — rejecting Pictorialist haze for large-format precision and tonal wealth as beauty itself.
All-over deep focus / Large-format precision / A rich grayscale / Directness refusing manipulation
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Edward Weston / Ansel Adams's zone system / Imogen Cunningham