Arts & Entertainment Dorothea Lange Exhibit at Oakland Museum To Feature Hundreds of Rarely Seen Photos Dorothea Lange documented American life through nuanced photographs that highlighted the major social issues of the 20th century. Next week, you can virtually scroll through hundreds of her works, courtesy of OMCA’s latest digital exhibit devoted to the world-renowned photographer.
Arts & Entertainment Chicago Photographer Seeks SF Subjects He Took Random Portraits Of In 1973 44 years ago this month, photographer Jeff Cohen decided to invite random passersby into his Union Street studio in San Francisco, and he took their portraits, promising to mail them each a copy.
Arts & Entertainment Cool New Photography Series Shows San Francisco Buildings In Stark Black And White Photographer Burton Rast has recently done a series of 100 photographs, shot over 100 days, that shows off San Francisco structures and landmarks almost as abstract shapes, in stark black and white. Rast
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The Bold, Tacky, And Beautiful Americana Of Northern California Roadside Architecture "My parents’ generation thought it was the ugliest stuff in the world,” said photographer John Margolies in a 2015 interview with the Washington Post. “I liked places where everything was screaming for attention:
Arts & Entertainment Photographer Michael Jang Watched The SF Punk Scene Blossom, And Now He's Selling Photos Of It For $20 Well respected SF-based photographer Michael Jang already has plenty of his work in museums, including the permanent collection of SFMOMA, and this year he's been pulling some work out of his own vault
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Auction Next Week To Feature Rare Images Of San Francisco After 1906 Earthquake A collection of rare photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire in addition to several from before the earthquake are going up for auction on February 14 at Swann
SF News RayKo Photo Center, Largest Such Operation In The West, Plans To Shutter For Good In May The darkrooms at RayKo Photo Center, a 26-year-old photography institution that's spanned the medium's major transition from film to digital with copious resources in each discipline, will go proverbially dark at the end
SF News A Look At The Work Of SFFD's First Official Photographer This year marks the 150th anniversary of the San Francisco Fire Department, and in honor of that milestone the SF Public Library decided to look back at the department's first official photographer: Chet
Arts & Entertainment Local Photographer Finds National Fame Through Instagram 'Doortraits' A photo posted by Julie Gebhardt (@juliegeb) on Sep 27, 2016 at 9:25pm PDT People Instagram a lot of random stuff, especially in San Francisco, which we learned late last year is
SF News Folsom Street Fair 'Ask First' Campaign Rankles Some Photographers On the Saturday morning before this year’s Folsom Street Fair, while most of us were still blacking our boots or rigging our pony carts, a social media skirmish broke out regarding the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Last Night's Sunset Sure Was Pretty SF summer is here... pic.twitter.com/SWItTKEtCw— the sunset (@thesunset) August 30, 2016 Did you catch last night's sunset? Maybe while out on a stroll grabbing some frozen treats? Of maybe sipping
Arts & Entertainment SF Startup Looks To Revive The Polaroid Brand With A New Kind Of Dynamic Photo App Polaroid is not dead. Many lovers of the iconic instant-photo brand have been wishing and hoping this were true for years now, as the cameras have become collectors' items and the film for
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Last Night's Sunset Set Fire To The Sky (And Instagram) Did you SEE last night’s sunset? Did you turn your head skyward to witness a Summer Solstice miracle? Did you observe the heavens in their fiery glory? Well, did you? Honestly, who
Arts & Entertainment National Geographic Photographer Contest Inspires Stunning Images Of San Francisco There are still a couple weeks to enter the 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest, but unless your skills and access to helicopters is up to the level of some
Arts & Entertainment RIP Charles Gatewood, Photographer Of 'Strange, Edgy Subjects' Who Was One Himself “For my personal work, I preferred strange, edgy subjects,” Charles Gatewood wrote in his 1975 monograph “Sidetripping,” published with text from his friend and collaborator William S. Burroughs. Gatewood, a renowned photographer who
Arts & Entertainment Behold: 100 Female, Queer, And Non-White 'Techies' In Portraits And Interviews "Techie" has become a narrow, and quite often, a narrow-minded term. That's why Helena Price, a startup worker turned photographer, put out the call for stories from "underrepresented" techies — a group she identified
SF News Yosemite 'Firefall' Phenomenon Delights Photographers That bright glow that appears to be lava? Don't worry. It's just light reflected on the Horsetail waterfall. The phenomenon referred to as the Yosemite Firefall, the Chronicle writes, is just observable twice
Arts & Entertainment February's Prettiest Sunrises And Sunsets, So Far El Niño has been rather kind to us thus far in February, which is bad news for the drought though I hold out hope for a rainy March but good news for those
Arts & Entertainment Amazing Trove Of Color Photos Show A Brand New Golden Gate Bridge & Scenes From The 1939 World's Fair These days, we are all photographers. The people of the future, assuming enough of our digital record remains, will have a staggering fecundity of documents of the lives we led, the clothes we
SF News Video: Travis Jensen On Photographing The City, The Excelsior Photographer Travis Jensen (whose work is frequently featured on SFist) recently teamed up with Greenlabel to highlight parts of the city that don't frequently get that postcard treatment. Their focus? The Excelsior. The
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is The 10th Most Instagrammed Place In The World Gloomy sunrise over the city this morning 📷 by @tberolz #sanfrancisco #sunrise #ggbridge #mysf #willjourney A photo posted by Julia Engel (Gal Meets Glam) (@juliahengel) on Dec 2, 2015 at 11:26am PST This
Arts & Entertainment Trove Of Historical SF Photos Now Available For Your Browsing Pleasure San Francisco history buffs delighted at the news last year that a local nonprofit had been entrusted with the digitization of a vast trove of historical photos of the city, and that the
Arts & Entertainment From 'Basic Gays' To 'Jocks': Photographer Hal Fischer Rereleases His '70s Tome <em>Gay Semiotics</em> Before you or I or anyone in San Francisco for that matter could spot a bear blocks away in SoMa, there was the revelation of Hal Fischer's Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Fifty Years of San Francisco Street Photography' You ever come across a vintage San Francisco photograph that gives you gasps, goosebumps and throbs of nostalgic fascination? There will be an entire gallery of photographs like that at the upcoming exhibit
Arts & Entertainment 'Also Shot On iPhone 6,' The Apple-Spoofing Ad Campaign We Deserve If you've seen a billboard recently, you've probably been confronted with an image shot on an iPhone 6. And they look good, even blown up to extreme new heights. Apple has assembled some
