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The Pictorial Photographers of America (PPA)is an organization founded in 1916 for the practice and promotion of photography as art by Clarence H(udson) White (primary founder), Gertrude Kaesebier and others when they broke away from Alfred Stieglitz. The group had national and international scope in its early years and turned over a number of its functions in organizing photographers and exhibits when the Photographic Society of America (PSA), of which it was one of the founding members, was established in _____. In its early years, PPA produced a series of five annuals of brief essays and pictorial photography from the US and other countries.
The group still exists today and meets in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. It celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2006 with a month-long exhibit at the artist residential community Westbeth in Manhattan's West Village. Westbeth occupies a building formerly the site of Bell Labs.
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