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In Sharp Focus: The Legacy of Monterey Photography
In Sharp Focus: the Legacy of Monterey Photography will be the third in a series of major photography exhibitions organized by the Monterey Museum of Art. On view June 16 through September 30, 2012, In Sharp Focus will examine the Group f/64 photographers鈥攕even innovative northern California artists including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Alma Lavenson鈥攁nd their continuing legacy to the Monterey Peninsula. Turning away from the expressive, soft-focused, pictorial style of photography of the early twentieth century, these artists instead delivered realism, precision, high contrast, and intense detail without interpretive manipulation. Their approach was a modernist departure of its time, which revealed the natural world as never before and transformed American photography. Complementing these legendary artists will be works by the succeeding generation of photographers, among them: Henry Gilpin, Rod Dresser, John Sexton, and Michael Kenna who continue to capture the magical and evocative landscapes of the Monterey region.
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In Sharp Focus: the Legacy of Monterey Photography will be the third in a series of major photography exhibitions organized by the Monterey Museum of Art. On view June 16 through September 30, 2012, In Sharp Focus will examine the Group f/64 photographers鈥攕even innovative northern California artists including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Alma Lavenson鈥攁nd their continuing legacy to the Monterey Peninsula. Turning away from the expressive, soft-focused, pictorial style of photography of the early twentieth century, these artists instead delivered realism, precision, high contrast, and intense detail without interpretive manipulation. Their approach was a modernist departure of its time, which revealed the natural world as never before and transformed American photography. Complementing these legendary artists will be works by the succeeding generation of photographers, among them: Henry Gilpin, Rod Dresser, John Sexton, and Michael Kenna who continue to capture the magical and evocative landscapes of the Monterey region.
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