Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, group founded in 1967 by Ansel Adams, Morley Baer, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Brett Weston, and others from the Group f.64 school, with the aim of promoting creative photography and supporting its practitioners. After Adams's death in 1984, the organization moved to San Francisco where the Ansel Adams Center for Photography opened in 1989. Over its 30-year history the Friends mounted many major exhibitions, published catalogues and monographs, and organized workshops and educational programmes. As a consequence of confused goals, dwindling membership and financial difficulties, but also of photography's by now established position in the cultural mainstream, the organization closed its doors in October 2001.
— Tim Troy
