

Rock Formations Detail, Weston Beach, Point Lobos State Reserve, California, 1949. Philip Hyde attended the 1946 summer session with Ansel Adams at the California School of Fine Arts. He enrolled in the second full-time day class in Fall 1947 under lead instructor Minor White. Before earning their certificate in 1950, Philip Hyde’s class took several field trips to visit Edward Weston at home in Wildcat Hill in Carmel. Philip Hyde and several other classmates camped in tents on Edward Weston's lawn and woke up early to look at prints with Edward Weston. Edward Weston also took the class out on Point Lobos to photograph. Many of Philip Hyde's early close-ups and landscapes show Edward Weston's influence and he may have been present Philip Hyde made some of these vintage black and white photographs at Point Lobos.