Sonya Noskowiak

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Sonya Noskowiak (born November 25, 1900 in Leipzig , † April 28, 1975 in Greenbrae , USA ) was a German-American photographer .

Life

Born in Leipzig in 1900, Noskowiak began her career in 1929 in Johan Hagemeyer's studio in Los Angeles ; a little later she worked for Edward Weston , with whom she lived between 1929 and 1934 and whose pictures she enlarged. At the same time, she got her own clientele for portraits .

In 1932, together with the photographers Imogen Cunningham , John Paul Edwards , Ansel Adams , Henry Swift , Willard van Dyke and Edward Weston, she founded the group f / 64 , which campaigned dogmatically for photography that had the greatest possible depth of field - symbolized by its name the group, which shows a very small aperture - and maximum level of detail was marked.

Her pictures were shown for the first time in an exhibition of the group f / 64 in 1933. In the following years she received several exhibitions of her own, including in the galleries of Ansel Adams, Denny-Watrous and Willard Van Dyke.

In 1935 she founded her own studio in San Francisco , where she worked until 1965.

Many of her images are now in the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson .

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  1. ^ Portrait of Sonya Noskowiak at Lee Gallery, Fine 19th and 20th Century Photographs ( Memento from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )