Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello George: Good recommendations. I viewed the first exhibit last Saturday. I will check out the others when I return from Germany. Roland Smith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Hartzell" <hartzell@cs.berkeley.edu> To: "Leica Users digest" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:07 AM Subject: [Leica] photo exhibits at the Oakland Museum. > > I'd like to recommend a field trip to folks in the San Francisco Bay > Area. The Oakland Museum (www.museumca.org) has three exhibits that > are interesting: > > Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000. > > Every Worker is an Organizer (photographs by David Bacon). > > After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental > Photography. > > The first covers a lot of photograhic ground and seems to be > [partially] designed to show off the museum's permanent collection. > > The second is a photojournalistic essay about agricultural laborers in > the central valley. In addition to the topic, it's a very nice set of > black and white photographs. I haven't seen that many photographs > (~100) that showed a single signature, it was clear that a single > person shot them. > > The third is a collection of photo's by a long time Bay Area resident > that gives a feel about how we have been changing the landscape. > > All three are well worth the trip. > > g. > > >