This corresponds to the ideal of straight photography which the group espoused in response to the pictorialist methods that were still in fashion at the time in California (even though they had long since died away in New York).
Isto correspóndese co ideal de fotografía directa que o grupo defendía en resposta aos métodos do pictorialismo que aínda estaban de moda nese momento en California (a pesar de que en Nova York facía tempo que non se levaban).