Spectacular Photographs: Unforgettable Faces, Facts, and Feats
February 2 - March 11, 1989
Participating Archives and Collections: California Historical Society (SF), Canapress Photos (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Chicago Historical Society, Circus World Museum (Baraboo, WI), H.H. Bennett Photographic Studio (Wisconsin Sells, WI), Houdini Magical Hall of Fame (Niagara Falls, Canada), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (Washington DC), Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, MN), Niagara Falls Museum, Ripley’s Believe it or not (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), San Francisco Chronicle, Underwood Photo Archive (San Francisco, CA), Vanishing Georgia Collection (Atlanta, GA) and State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Tina Barney and Nic Nicosia: Staged Documents
March 16 - April 22, 1989
Curated by Philip Gefter

Bay Area Students Project
April 27 - May 13, 1989
Group exhibition featuring students from Mills College and the San Francisco Art Institute

Richard Bolton: The Bear in the Marketplace: Anticommunism and Patriotism in Recent American Advertising 
May 18 - June 24, 1989

Klaus Staeck: Beware Art! Photomontage as Political Intervention
May 18 - June 24, 1989

Hysterics of Photography
July 5 - August 19, 1989
Karl Baden, Jay Boersma, Karen Keister, Joachim Schmid and Adib Fricke

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
September 5 - October 14, 1989
Judith Black, Elaine O’Neil, Sally Mann, W. Synder MacNeil and Bea Nettles

Su-Chen Hung: Face to Face
October 19 - November 18, 1989

Scott Stark: Transmission
October 19 - November 18, 1989

Stories
December 8, 1989 - January 27, 1990
Tamarra Kaida, Tony Mendoza, Clarissa Slig and Jeffrey A. Wolin
A separate installation by Maria Porges was presented in the bookstore gallery.