- John Paul Edwards
John Paul Edwards (1884-1968) was an American
photographer and a member of the famousGroup f/64 .He was born in Minnesota on June 5th, 1884, and moved to California in 1902. It's not known how he became interested in photography, but by the early 1920s he was a member opf the Oakland Camera Club, the San Francisco Photographic Society, and the Pictorial Photographers of America. His early photographs were in the
pictorialist style, but by the late 1920s he had changed to a purestraight photography style.Sometime around 1930 he met
Willard Van Dyke andEdward Weston . Within two years they had become good friends, and in 1932 Edwards was invoted to be a founding member of Group f/64, along with Weston, Van Dyke,Ansel Adams ,Imogen Cunningham ,Sonya Noskowiak andHenry Swift (Photographer)}Henry Swift . He participated in the landmark Group f/64 exhibit at theM.H. de Young Memorial Museum , showing nine images of boats, anchor chains and farm wagons.He continued to photograph for many years after Group f/64 disolved in 1935, but he did not gain any of the fame of many other members of the group. In 1967 he and his wife donated an important collection of photographs to the
Oakland Museum . He died in Oakland, California, in 1968.References
Heyman, Therese Thau. "Seeing Straight: The Group f.64 Revolution in Photography" (Oakland: Oakland Museum, 1992)
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