[Self-Portrait]

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[Self-Portrait]

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American Photographer · 1897–1989

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My interests have varied with the passage of time--first, a fascination with the compositions to be found in industrial subjects....Later an interest in the details of nature....Then there was my [thirty-year] love affair with the Mother Lode [region of California]. Now it is people...being natural in their own environments. It has all been a joyful experience, and I hope the success (or failure)

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Date: 1932
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Employing the sharp focus and close vantage point that were the hallmarks of Group f/64, with which she was associated, Alma R. Lavenson presented her camera as a vital extension of herself as a photographic artist. Her hands delicately and reverently frame the lens, positioning it as her center and source of inspiration.

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