Photographer; born in Portland, Ore. She took a
degree in chemistry from the University of Washington: Seattle and then went to
work in the Seattle studio of Edward Curtis. After eight years assisting Curtis,
she went to Dresden, Germany, to study photographic chemistry (1909--10), then
returned to Seattle to set up her own commercial portraiture studio. She and her
husband moved to San Francisco in 1917 (they had three children and were
divorced in the 1930s) and there she spent most of the rest of her life; she
continued working until only a week before her death. She was a founding member
of Group f/64, which had its first exhibit at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
(San Francisco) in 1932, and her work was often shown in galleries and museums
throughout the U.S.A. Working in the realistic or "straight" school of
Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, she was not especially a technical innovator but
she is admired for her sharply focused black-and-white images, particularly her
portraits and her nature studies.
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