Sonya Noskowiak
Lumber Mill, Albion, California

Lumber Mill, Albion, California
Lumber Mill, Albion, California
Lumber Mill, Albion, California
ArtistAmerican, born Germany, 1900–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Lumber Mill, Albion, California
Date1930s
Place depictedAlbion, California, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 7/16 × 9 1/2 in. (18.9 × 24.2 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/16 × 9 1/2 in. (18.9 × 24.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1770
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In 1932 Sonya Noskowiak was one of seven San Francisco–based
photographers, including Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, who formed Group f/64.
They advocated a pure, sharply focused style of photography that captured the beauty
of the real world—not the Pictorialists’ soft-focus imitation of painting.

Noskowiak’s
nearly abstract composition of sunlit, angled rooftops reflected the real world
in another way as well: the northern California lumber mill that once hewed the
region’s giant redwoods into millions of railroad ties for the Southern Pacific
Railway had closed in 1929 and lay idle, a melancholy casualty of the Great
Depression.




Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper left corner: 6(circled)-A7u [?]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, center of sheet: 11 // 02

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