The definitive volume on the leading group of creative photographers working after World War I to midcentury.This book fully examines the Pictorial Photographers of America, the most important organization of artistic camera workers of their time. It covers their beginnings in 1916, under the guiding light of Clarence H. White, and their activities until 1950, when the movement of pictorial photography dissolved. The PPA published handsome annuals during the 1920s and around the same time commenced the first regular series of high-end exhibitions, termed "salons," in New York. It also presented frequent instructional gatherings at its Manhattan headquarters for decades, influencing two generations of ambitious photographers.