In 1932 he became a founding member of Group f/64 along with Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and several others.
de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
[1] While participating in the group, he was also able to collect many of the other photographers prints because of earnings as a stockbroker.
[2] After Group f/64 dissolved in 1935, Swift's interest in photography waned.
When he died in 1962, his widow Florence Swift assembled his collection of photographs from members of Group f/64, sought additional donations from some of the original members of the group, and donated the entire collection to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.