PHOTOGRAPHY WEST GALLERY’S STAR LENSMEN

IF YOU’VE EVER BEEN TO CARMEL AND MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, YOU KNOW WHY CLINT EASTWOOD SET UP SHOP THERE. It’s not just fantastic for celebrity golfers who like Pacific Ocean views with their putts. The area has long been revered by photographers, too, for its inspiring beauty, its light, its creative atmosphere — and for a certain seminal gallery that has supported their careers and the medium itself.

“Film photography was the most important art medium of the 20th century,” says Carol E. Williams, owner and founder of Photography West Gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea. “It has a”