Camera Craft was a monthly American magazine subtitled "A photographic monthly". [1] [2]
Camera Craft was a monthly American magazine subtitled "A photographic monthly". [1] [2]
San Francisco-based Camera Craft began publication with the vol. 1, no. 1, May 1900 issue and ceased publication with vol. 49, no. 3, Mar. 1942 issue, when it was absorbed by American Photography magazine. [3]
It was devoted to practical photography illustrated with photos and each issue contained a photographic art print.
Camera Craft was the official organ of the Photographers' Association of California from November 1922 until January 1925, and subsequently of other similar organisations. It was edited by Fayette J. Clute of the Camera Craft Publishing Co. in San Francisco.
It gave space also to reports of the International Photographic Association and advertisements for cameras, camera equipment, services and supplies for the working photographer. The magazine was a significant outlet for such writers on the medium as William Mortensen who promoted Pictorialism, and Ansel Adams who argued for a Purist approach to the medium. In 1934 Adams published a series of what he announced were ‘provocative’ articles on photographic technique in Camera Craft and the next year published his first technical book, Making a Photograph (1935). [4] Other significant contributors were Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston. [3]
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed an exacting system of image-making called the Zone System, a method of achieving a desired final print through a deeply technical understanding of how tonal range is recorded and developed during exposure, negative development, and printing. The resulting clarity and depth of such images characterized his photography.
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Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. Cunningham was a member of the California-based Group f/64, known for its dedication to the sharp-focus rendition of simple subjects.
Edward Henry Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still-lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and especially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.
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