"...what surrounded them in such abundance: the landscape, the flourishing organic growth and the still viable rural life. Pointing their lenses at the kind of agrarian objects that had vanished from the artistic consciousness of many eastern urbanites - fence posts, barn roofs, and rusting farm implements - they treated these objects with the same sharp scrutiny as were latches and blast furnaces in the East. However, even in California, these themes look to a vanishing way of life, and the energy contained in the images derived in many instances from formal design rather than from the kind of intense belief in the future that had motivated easterners enamored of machine culture."
I think it could lead to a very interesting movement. I just strive to create more of a bond between photographers in the bay area, like the one that was evident in the early part of the century. I do worry how it would be received among critics and older photographers... food for thought!
I am positive, however, that such a survey would include many modern photographic trends that i am not particularly a fan of. ah well.
