

Russian Hill, San Francisco, California, 1948. Photographed for an assignment by lead instructor Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts now the San Francisco Art Institute. This urban landscape went on to be widely printed and shown in many exhibitions, sometimes with members of Group f.64, including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham, who also taught at the school. Philip Hyde became a part of the community of photographers from San Francisco that reinvented photography, starting with Group f.64 and their continuation of the straight photography of Paul Strand and Alfred Stieglitz.