ABSTRACT

https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003135548/4dd8c7f5-59d7-41bc-a6ba-3a27af282e4f/content/inline146.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>This California-based collective was the nucleus of the 'straight photography' movement that became the defining aesthetic of American Modernism, relinquishing Pictorialism in favour of precise reproductions of natural forms.