Photographic Pictorialism was an early twentieth-century movement that had as its goal the romantic expression of forms of beauty. In California, Pictorialism took expression as varied as landscape photographs, Hollywood portraits, and moody evocations of modern dance. This book—published to coincide with exhibitions at the Getty Museum and the Huntington Library and Art Gallery—contains some one hundred photographs that illustrate the full range of the Pictorialist movement in Northern and Southern California. It includes images by such well-known Pictorialists as Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston.

Michael Wilson is a photographic collector and a specialist on Northern California Pictorialist photographers. Dennis Reed is the dean of academic affairs at California State University, Northridge, and was formerly director of the College Art Gallery there.

This title is out of print. Please look for it at your local libraries and/or used bookstores.