Over 500 People Attend Golden Decade Opening: 75 Vintage Prints of Ansel Adams' Students Sell

Sept. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- The Golden Decade Exhibition, which is being scheduled to tour museums, includes the work of 32 photographers who studied with Ansel Adams during the first decade of his San Francisco photography program while Minor White was lead instructor after World War II and Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham and others guest lectured.

The Golden Decade Exhibition including works by such names as Pirkle Jones, Ruth Marion Baruch, Philip Hyde, William Heick, Pat Harris, Bob Hollingsworth, Cameron Macauley, Ira Latour, Benjamen Chinn, Rose Mandel, David Johnson, John Upton and others continues through October 15th at Smith Anderson North Gallery, 20 Greenfield Lane, San Anselmo, California. “There is currently a lot of energy around the work from this period,” said Scott Nichols, collector and owner of Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco. Smith Anderson North has sold more than half of the 150 vintage prints in the show.

A number of the Golden Decade photographers participated in photography’s historical events such as The Family of Man Exhibition (1955, New York and international venues) and The Perceptions Exhibition (1954, San Francisco), and many of these California School of Fine Arts photographers were prominently featured in the early issues of Aperture magazine. A number of Golden Decade photographers have had books published, notably Pirkle Jones with his wife, Ruth Marion Baruch, John Upton and Philip Hyde whose photographs were the first used for land conservation with the ground-breaking Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series.