biography
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| lived:
| (1908–76)
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He studied botany and poetry, and worked as a photographer for the US government Works Progress Administration (from 1937), becoming greatly influenced by Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz in developing photographic sequences. In 1946 he moved to San Francisco, where he worked with Ansel Adams, following him as director of the photographic department in the California School of Fine Art (1947–52). He founded and edited the periodicals Aperture (1952) and Image (1953–7), and was professor of creative photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1965–76). |
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