

Angular Rock, Pebbles, Weston Beach, Point Lobos State Reserve, California, 1949. Ansel Adams organized the first ever college level program in photography as a fine art. Philip Hyde attended the Summer 1946 session and began the program proper in Fall 1947, earning his certificate in Spring 1950. On several field trips the class visited Edward Weston at Wildcat Hill in Carmel. Hyde and several other classmates camped in tents on Weston's lawn. They looked at prints with Weston and he took the students out on Pt. Lobos to photograph. Many of Hyde's images show Weston's influence. Weston may have been present while Hyde made several of these early exposures at Pt. Lobos.