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One Front Street, formerly known as Shaklee Terraces, is an office skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 164 m (538 ft), 38-floor tower was completed in 1979, at which point the official address was 444 Market Street. The address was later changed as the number 4 is seen as causing bad luck in many Asian ...
Fred Lyon (September 27, 1924 – August 22, 2022) was an American photographer. [1] He was known for shots of foggy San Francisco, [2] [3] and photos of San Francisco life from the 1940s to the 1960s.
PBA was founded in 1992 by former employees of California Book Auction Galleries, which closed following the passing of its founder, Maurice F. Powers. PBA Galleries was first located at 139 Townsend Street, in the SOMA area of San Francisco (just a block away from the present location of ATT Park, home of the San Francisco Giants).
Pier 24 Photography is a non-profit art museum located on the Port of San Francisco directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The organization houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation, which collects, preserves and exhibits photography.
Arnold Genthe was born in Berlin, Prussia, to Luise Zober and Hermann Genthe, a professor of Latin and Greek at the Graues Kloster (Grey Monastery) in Berlin. Genthe followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a classically trained scholar; he received a doctorate in philology in 1894 from the University of Jena, where he knew artist Adolph Menzel, his mother's cousin.
Leonard Frank (July 3, 1870 – February 23, 1944) was a German–Canadian photographer known for commercial and industrial photography. First emigrating to San Francisco, two years later he made his way up the coast to eventually settle in the town of Alberni on Vancouver Island. The chance win of a camera in a raffle steered him towards a ...
In 1892, Waters opened, R. J. Waters & Co., a commercial photography studio at 110 Sutter Street, in San Francisco. [1] Photographs by Waters are held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, [3] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [4] the Library of Congress, [5] the Online Archive of California, [6] and the University of Nevada, Reno library.
Castro Camera was a camera store in the Castro District of San Francisco, California, operated by Harvey Milk from 1972 until his assassination in 1978.During the 1970s the store became the center of the neighborhood's growing gay community, as well as campaign headquarters for Milk's various campaigns for elected office.