Seattle Camera Club members

The formation of the Seattle Camera Club in 1924 offered the Puget Sound region’s flourishing photography community opportunities for greater public exposure as well as the exchange of ideas. TAM has work in the collection by all but one of the Club's core members (Soichi Sunami).

Most of the artists in this group were Pictorialist photographers. Pictorialism dominated Northwest photography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their works stressed the atmosphere or viewpoint of an image over the subject, emphasizing photography’s artistic possibilities.