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Politics Unseen: Group F.64 Photography and the Problem of Purity

Politics Unseen: Group F.64 Photography and the Problem of Purity

MacFarlane, Ellen

Hardcover

Art HistoryArtistsPhotography History & Criticism

ISBN10: 0520399757
ISBN13: 9780520399754
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jan 7 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.10 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
In Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the pure photographs of California art photography society Group f.64, known for depicting Western landscapes, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and faces. By foregrounding f.64 members' and their prints' alliances across commercial, political, and artistic domains, the book shatters entrenched understandings of the group as disinterested in contemporary events and unseats conceptions of its prints as icons of modernist purity. Instead, Politics Unseen argues the politics of f.64's photographs become visible when interwar ideas about purity in the areas of eugenics, racial essence, nutrition, colonialism, and horticulture are interrogated. Ultimately, Politics Unseen alters perceptions not only of f.64, but also of what constituted a political image in 1930s America.

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