Sonya Noskowiak

Sonya Noskowiak ( born November 25, 1900 in Leipzig, † April 28, 1975 in Greenbrae, United States) was a German - American photographer.

Life

Born in 1900 in Leipzig, Noskowiak began her career in 1929 in Johan Hagemeyers studio in Los Angeles; a little later she worked for Edward Weston, with whom she lived 1929-1934 and whose pictures they enlarged. At the same time she got her own clientele for portraits.

In 1932 she founded together with the photographer Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Ansel Adams, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston, the Group f/64, which quite dogmatically fought for a photograph by the greatest possible depth of field - symbolized by the name the group, which indicates a very small aperture - and maximum attention to detail was characterized.

Your pictures were shown for the first time in an exhibition of the Group f/64 in 1933. In the following years she received several independent exhibitions, including in the galleries of Ansel Adams, Denny - Watrous and Willard Van Dyke.

In 1935 she founded her own studio in San Francisco, where she worked until 1965.

Many of her paintings are now in the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.