Childhood: an exhibition by the San Francisco Toy Camera Group May 2 – July 7, 2016 opening reception Wednesday, May 4, from 7:00 pm -9:00 pm. Participating photographers are: Christine Zona Liz Norris Daniel Wiabuana J Valdivia Elayna Yussen Kate Weigel Katherine Heck Nicole Perroni Maria Cordell Shannon McClatchey J. M. Golding Glass Key Photo,
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9th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show March 9 – April 29, 2016 Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 9, 6-8pm China may have announced that they’ve stopped making the Holga (a plastic medium format camera with limited controls, a fixed focal length, and a unique and often quirky plastic lens), but artists are still churning out
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MCNAIR EVANS: IN SEARCH OF GREAT MEN APRIL 15 – NOVEMBER 18, 2016 Opening Reception with Curator-led Walkthrough: Thursday, April 15, 2016 A train journey in 2011 from his hometown in North Carolina to Virginia, inspired fine art photographer McNair Evans to explore contemporary America through the country’s passenger rail system. For over three years,
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ALINE SMITHSON: SELF & OTHERS JANUARY 21-FEBRUARY 29, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST AND BOOK SIGNING: THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 6-8PM Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography (Magenta Foundation) gathers nearly 20 years of portrait photographs by the award-winning photographer Aline Smithson. A leading force in the international photography community, she is highly respected as
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David Maisel | The Fall January 7, 2016 — March 12, 2016 In the fall of 2013, Maisel was commissioned to photograph the city of Toledo, Spain, for ToledoContemporánea, an exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the painter El Greco. After completing the Toledo works, Maisel set to work on The Fall,
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Reigning Queens: The Lost Photos of Roz Joseph October 23, 2015, through February 2016 Opening reception: October 23, 7:00-9:00 p.m. “Roz Joseph documented a world of self-styled baronesses in diamond tiaras, elaborate ‘royal’ coronations and gender-bending performance,” notes curator Joey Plaster. “Her photos show how gay men deployed theater and fantasy to make very real
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Piyatat Hemmatat: 3rd Eye Trilogy: The New Dawn June 11 – July 23, 2015 OPENING RECEPTION with the artist: Thursday, June 11, 6–8pm 3rd Eye Trilogy: The New Dawn is the first of a three-part series of photographs inspired by the mystery and beauty dwelling within the lens—the “third eye” that Hemmatat uses to create
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MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN: TRANSCUBA JUNE 25 – JULY 31, 2015 OPENING RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING: THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 6-8PM For more than 30 years, American photographer Mariette Pathy Allen has been documenting transgender culture worldwide; in 2004 she won the Lambda Literary Award for her book The Gender Frontier. In her latest series, TransCuba, which
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Poland and Palestine: Two Lands and Two Skies Feb 26 through May 24, 2015 The images paint a powerful picture by showing their subjects, Polish Jews, in two distinct cultural contexts—in the streets of their home city and in distant Palestine. In turn, the photographs become the starting point for telling stories about the relationship
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MCNAIR EVANS: Confessions for a Son December 4 – 12, 2014 In 2010, San Francisco based photographer McNair Evans returned to his childhood home in Laurinburg, North Carolina to retrace his father’s life and legacy after his death nine years earlier. His father’s passing had exposed the looming insolvency of their family farming businesses, ending five generations
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