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3 unusual facts about Nata Piaskowski


Nata Piaskowski

Known for her fine composition, she took portraits and landscapes as well as series on the San Francisco psychedelic scene and the changing effects of the tide.

Subsequent photo trips included Guatemala (1980) and California's Mojave Desert (1981).

During the 1980s, she also photographed in New York, Washington D.C., Santa Fe and Taos as well as Death Valley and Yosemite Valley.


The West Coast Photographic Movement

Notable artists and photographers included: Dody Weston Thompson, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Charis Wilson (second wife of Edward Weston and the famous model of his nude photographic work), Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, Wynn Bullock, Don Ross, Ruth Bernhard, Willard Van Dyke, Nata Piaskowski, Beaumont Newhall and Nancy Newhall, and artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Morris Graves and Jean Charlot and his wife Zohmah Charlot.


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