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

by Ellen MacFarlane

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520399757
• ISBN13: 9780520399754
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages