In 1932 a group of 11 American photographers, including Edward Weston, Sonya Noskowiak, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham, formed Group f/64. The name was referred to the smallest aperture available in large-format view cameras at the time. Counter to the methods used by pictorialist photographers, individuals in Group f/64 advocated that art photographs should be made in ways that were, to them, uniquely photographic. This often meant using sharp focus and framing techniques that pictured the