Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] FOP to close.
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:10:01 -0800

What a shame!

Guy



>THE FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY TO CLOSE
>
>SAN FRANCISCO -- The board of trustees of The Friends of Photography
>has announced that the San Francisco-based nonprofit organization and
>its popular museum, the Ansel Adams Center, will close its doors
>permanently October 31, 2001, and that its programs and assets are
>being transferred to other San Francisco Bay Area organizations for the
>ongoing benefit of its members and the public.
>
>Founded January 2, 1967, in Carmel, California, by famed photographer
>Ansel Adams and several of his colleagues, including Brett Weston,
>Morley Baer and Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, The Friends of Photography
>is internationally renowned for its success in promoting photography as
>a fine art through its extensive publications, exhibitions, awards,
>workshops, and education and outreach programs.  Its gallery was one of
>the first in the country devoted exclusively and independently to
>exhibiting fine art photography.
>
>The Friends moved to San Francisco in 1989, and was the first nonprofit
>arts institution to make its home in the now burgeoning South of
>Market/Yerba Buena Gardens arts and entertainment district.  In January
>2001, the organization moved from Fourth Street into handsome new
>facilities at 655 Mission Street, around the corner from SFMOMA.
>
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