SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. has published its fourth E-Catalogue, Photographs We Like: Photographers at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-55.

Between 1945 and 1955, a fortunate group of students at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco studied under a faculty that included some of the great photographers of the age—Ansel Adams, Minor White, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Lisette Model. Many of the students went on to distinguished photographic careers themselves.

Work by many of these accomplished photographers is now available for purchase through this fourth E-Catalogue (link). These promising newcomers to the art of photography created images finely observed and composed, psychologically perceptive, by turns lyrical or mordant. Their photographs are worthy of recognition - as well as a place in private and museum collections.

A folder labeled “CSFA exchange prints” found in her father’s darkroom propelled Victoria Whyte and her husband, Ken Ball, on a search for these almost unknown photographers who had studied at the California School of Fine Arts. The students regularly exchanged prints among themselves and Don Whyte’s folder held his collection of “exchange prints.”

Collaborating with Bill Heick, Ira Latour and Cameron Macauley, themselves students at the school during that decade, Whyte and Ball embarked on a 20-year project that led them to the other photographers whose work was filed away in Don Whyte’s folder. The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-55, their book about these talented photographers was published by Steidl in October, 2016.

The exhibition, The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-55 at the Laguna Art Museum from February 17 through May 29, 2017 will feature work by these photographers.