Consuelo Kanaga began her career as a journalist in San Francisco Chronicle in 1915, and self-studied the usage of camera. After marrying Evans Davison, mining engineer and moved to New York, Kanaga became a photojournalist of the New York American newspaper in 1922. She had not received any awards for her works, but has had numerous significant accomplishments.
Kanaga's most remarkable achievement would be the establishment of the association called f/64. She created the group along with a group of photographers including including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham. The band of people decided to initiate and advocate a new photographing stye, which opposed the pictorialsm prevalent during the time period. The name f/64 was named after the largest aperture setting for a camera that gives the camera a sharp focus, minimizing the blurriness in the picture. This idea of a perceptive, straightforward and lucid picture was the core of the newly established group.…show more content… The picture portraits an elder woman sitting besides her grandchild, living in an apartment with impoverished condition and environment. It was her first time contacting with the poor. Such experience, or such accomplishment of a prevailing artwork was significant for Kanaga because it prompted her to start exploring the life of the minorities. Depiction of the condition of the often-neglected community was a theme that appeared frequently in her later works. Moreover, the fact that Kanaga subjects her works on African Americans as a white photographer also raised awareness of the population to shift its focus more onto the minorities. She was one of the few white photographers in 1930s that took pictures of black people. In addition, Kanaga fought for the civil rights of African Americans during the 1960s, working as a covering the