Topic: San Francisco

Alfred Stieglitz—Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery
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The Unphotographable at Fraenkel

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 | 0

Emotions. Thoughts. Feelings. How can we photograph the unphotographable? A new show at San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery tries to find out.

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© Jim Marshall Photography LLC
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Happy 70th Birthday, Jerry Garcia

Wednesday, August 1, 2012 | 0

Legendary Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia would have turned 70 on August 1. LightBox celebrates his legacy with a collection of photographs taken by the prolific rock ‘n’ roll photographer Jim Marshall.

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(c) Jim Marshall Photography LLC, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Legend: Jim Marshall’s Musician Portraits

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 | 0

Jim Marshall photographed legends and his pictures have become iconic in American cultural history, but the vast majority of the music photographer’s work has never been seen. This month, a new book and two gallery shows will debut many never-before-published images from Marshall’s coverage of the Rolling Stones 1972 tour, as well as singular portraits of musicians including Johnny Cash, BB King and Joni Mitchell.

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Arthur Tress
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California Dreaming In 1964: Arthur Tress’ San Francisco

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 | 2

Arthur Tress’ witty and absurdist street photography captures 1960s-era San Francisco as a place caught between Left and Right, old and new, real and surreal. The work is on view at the Fisher Family Gallery of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from March 3 to June 3.

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Collection of the Artist © Rineke Dijkstra
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Rineke Dijkstra Makes the Awkward Sublime

Friday, February 17, 2012 | 1

A new exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and moving in June to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, features the Dutch photographer’s images of subjects caught in moments of truth.

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Francesca Woodman / Courtesy George and Betty Woodman
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Retrospective: Looking Back on Francesca Woodman’s Prolific Career

Friday, November 4, 2011 | 0

Known for her surrealist self-portraits, the photographer’s most comprehensive posthumous exhibition to date is now on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Los Angeles, 1987
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Henry Wessel’s Californication

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | 0

“It was like being in paradise. The light was so sharp, you could see the edge on everything. I got off the plane and I wanted to photograph everything that was there—I couldn’t stop.”  That’s the way Henry Wessel describes […]

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© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery
The Backstory

Patti Smith: Photographer’s Muse

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | 0

Poet, musician, artist and memoirist Patti Smith, one of this year’s TIME 100 honorees, tells TIME about her life in front of the lens.

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