page_title: Fred R. Archer
section_title: Fred Archer on Portraiture
hierarchical_section_title: Fred R. Archer / Fred Archer on Portraiture
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Fred Archer on Portraiture, published 1948
context_page_description: Fred Robert Archer, was an American photographer who collaborated with Ansel Adams to create the Zone System. He was a portrait photographer, specializing early in his career in portraits of Hollywood movie stars. He was associated with the artistic trend in photography known as pictorialism. He later became a photography teacher, and ran his own photography school for many years.
  Along with Edward Weston, whose portrait he took, Archer was known as one of the "two big names in art photography in those days out on the west coast". He socialized with and exchanged ideas with many other artists and intellectuals in Los Angeles for decades. He was "without a doubt, the individual with the longest history of participation in the Southern California Salon movement."
context_section_description: Archer's only book, Fred Archer on Portraiture, was published in 1948.  The book was a "popular text" that "remained in print for a number of years", and was reviewed in several national photography magazines.
caption: Cover of Fred Archer on Portraiture
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