Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html