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San Francisco, 1995.FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
The Friends of Photography was a group of photo-
graphers, photo historians, and photo enthusiasts
who were dedicated to the promotion of creative
photography through exhibitions, publications,
workshops, and community outreach programs in
the greater San Francisco area. For nearly 34 years
the group supported the medium of photography
and its practitioners through active and varied com-
munity programs.
The Friends of Photography was officially estab-
lished when a core group of 12 individuals met at the
home of Virginia and Ansel Adams in Carmel, Cali-
fornia, on January 1, 1967. The Founding Group
included Arthur Connell, photographers Morely
Baer, WynnBullock,Gerald Robinson, Gerry Shape,
and Cole Weston, writer and photographer Liliane
DeCock Morgan, architect Edgar Bissantz, musician
Rosario Mazzeo, and photo historians Nancy and
Beaumont Newhall. Ansel Adams was elected Pre-
sident and Brett Weston was named Vice President.
The diverse makeup of this initial group, which
included people engaged with photography on varied
levels, established the group’s unique perspective.
CreatedatthattimewasthefirstBoardofTrustees,
consisting of 18 Trustees; the position of Honorary
Trustee was established in 1985. An Advisory Com-
mittee was elected and those people were formally
designated as Advisory Trustees in 1974.
For the first three years operations were handled
by volunteer committees led by members of the
Board of Trustees. In 1972, as The Friends became
more established, a full-time, professional and paid
staff was hired to operate the organization’s growing
program. Membership revenue was the largest single
income source for The Friends, which was augmen-
ted by wholesale and retail sale of books as well as
special offers of fine prints and books to members.
Exhibitions were a significant component of The
Friends of Photography’s program, offering a
venue for audiences to explore and be inspired by
all styles and generations of creative photography.
The work of Adams, Wynn Bullock, Imogen Cun-
ningham, Dorothea Lange, Brett Weston, Edward
Weston, and Minor White comprised the first exhi-
bition of The Friends of Photography, which was
held in the historic Sunset Center in Carmel, Cali-
fornia, from June 23 through July 30, 1967. Later
in 1969, a second gallery was opened in the same
complex allowing simultaneous exhibitions until
1976 when all exhibitions were on view in the Sun-
set Center’s main gallery. That first year, The
Friends held four additional exhibitions that
included the work of Euge`ne Atget, Ruth-Marion
Baruch, Bruce Davidson, Pirkle Jones, W. Eugene
Smith, and Paul Strand.
The exhibition program continued through 2001,
rotating monthly or bi-monthly, and included the
work of Berenice Abbott, Manuel A ́lvarez Bravo,
Paul Caponigro, Harry Callahan, Judy Dater,
Emmett Gowin, Robert Heinecken, Anthony Her-
nandez, Lewis Hine, Harold Jones, Barbara Mor-
gan, Marion Palfi, Robert Rauschenberg, Edmund
Teske, Jerry N. Uelsmann, Todd Walker, and Adam
Clark Vroman, to name only a sampling. Also
mounted were thematic exhibitions such as Ten
Top European Photographers, East and West(1971),
Classics of Documentary Photography(1976),The
Photograph as Artifice(1978),Dyed Images: Recent
Work in Dye Transfer(1982),Narrative Images/Post-
Documentary Photography(1987), Proof: LA Art
and The Photograph 1960–1980(1993), andLand-
scapes of War: The American Civil War in Photo-
graphs (1997). Over the years, there were ten
exhibitions that featured the work of the membersFRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY