John Paul Edwards, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Paul Edwards

American photographer

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1884

Place of Birth: Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1968

Profession: photographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About John Paul Edwards

  • John Paul Edwards (1884–1968) was an American photographer and a member of the Group f/64. He was born in Minnesota on June 5, 1884, and moved to California in 1902.
  • It is not known how he became interested in photography, but by the early 1920s he was a member of the Oakland Camera Club, the San Francisco Photographic Society, and the Pictorial Photographers of America.
  • His early photographs were in the pictorialist style, but by the late 1920s he had changed to a pure straight photography style. Sometime around 1930 he met Willard Van Dyke and Edward Weston.
  • Within two years they had become good friends, and in 1932 Edwards was invited to be a founding member of Group f/64, along with Weston, Van Dyke, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Sonya Noskowiak and Henry Swift.
  • He participated in the landmark Group f/64 exhibit at the M.H.
  • de Young Memorial Museum, showing nine images of boats, anchor chains and farm wagons. He continued to photograph for many years after Group f/64 dissolved in 1935, but he did not gain any of the fame of many other members of the group.
  • In 1967 he and his wife donated a collection of photographs to the Oakland Museum.
  • He died in Oakland, California, in 1968.

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