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Jun 12, 2024 · 10. Bay Area Artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) Ruth Asawa in Her Studio, San Francisco, 1969. Source: Ruth Asawa’s website. Ruth Asawa was born in Southern California to Japanese parents. When she was a teenager, her entire family was sent to internment camps. After this painful experience, Asawa was able to pursue art at Black Mountain College ...
Jun 10, 2018 · ©2000 - 2024 Western Neighborhoods Project 1617 Balboa, San Francisco, CA 94121 - (415) 661-1000 Western Neighborhoods Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of western San Francisco neighborhoods.
Show more The artificial collection contains over 48,440 photographic prints of California (excluding San Francisco) places, activities and cultural resources collected by the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library compiled from selections from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue gifts of donors, and purchases. The collection spans more than 100 years of ...
Jun 21, 2016 · In Wessel’s witty images, backyard topiaries elicit as much curiosity as an anonymous man in a suit staring out to sea. The New Jersey-born photographer deftly incorporates California’s distinctive natural light—which struck him as a “physical presence” and motivated him to move to San Francisco early in his career—transforming his commonplace subjects into vignettes of light and ...
The artists of San Francisco got into the act early. According to the Federal Writers Project Guide to San Francisco, “During the depression the earliest large government supported mural job, the decoration of Coit Tower, undertaken by the Civil Works Administration in 1933, was a co-operative endeavor involving a number of San Francisco’s best known artists, including Ralph Stackpole ...
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The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection in the San Francisco History Center of the San Francisco Public Library contains over 2 million photographs and works on papers of San Francisco and California scenes ranging from 1850 to the present. This collection includes views of San Francisco street scenes, buildings, and neighborhoods, as well as photographs of famous San Francisco ...
Oct 10, 2016 · Noir: Photos From. the ’40s and ’50s. By Jonathan Blaustein Oct. 10, 2016. Fred Lyon is 92 years old and has photographed his hometown, San Francisco, for more than 70 years. His rich black-and-white scenes conjure a bygone era, when flash powder still existed, being alone with your thoughts was common, and the famed cable cars were public ...
