SF Camerawork | Upcoming Exhibitions

Summer 2008 Exhibitions
5 June - 23 August 2008
Opening Reception for all exhibitions:
Thursday 5 June, 5 - 8 pm

In his series Sunburn, San Francisco-based photographer Chris McCaw
turns the subject of his work, the sun, into an active participant in the
printmaking process, creating fascinating prints that are literally burned
by the path of the sun. The body of work was the result of a happy
accident. Intending to create an all night exposure of the stars while
camping, McCaw failed to wake up before sunrise. He discovered
that while the night’s exposure had been destroyed, an interesting
phenomenon had occurred on the film base, which had a hole
burnt through it from the intense rays of the rising sun.

This exhibition is funded by a grant from the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

In Gallery Two
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Guest Curator: David Deitcher

Image by Alan B. Stone
Photo credit: Alan B. Stone

This historical exhibition examines the social and cultural conditions
affecting the life and work of Alan B. Stone, a gay photographer who
worked prolifically in Montreal, Canada from the 1950s to the 1970s. Celebrated historian and curator David Deitcher, who also grew up in
Montreal, presents Stone's work as a means of exploring some of the
ways in which Deitcher himself subjectively experiences, uses,
and is affected by photographs.

In Gallery Three
Ruins to Renewal:
Works by RongRong & inri
Curated by Britta Erickson

Presented in partnership with the
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

Katsushige Nakahashi photographing the USS Missouri
Photo credit: RongRong & inri

For their Liu Li Tun series, Chinese artist RongRong and his
Japanese wife inri created photographs depicting the nurturing
environment of Liu Li Tun, an old Beijing neighborhood of traditional
courtyard houses and hutongs (small alleyways), and the formative role it
played in their life together before it was demolished as part of the city’s
massive redevelopment program. They also memorialized the destruction
of Liu Li Tun in a series of photographs of its ruins, often posing singly or
together in many of the images. The poignant and romantic drama that runs
as a thread through much of their collaborative oeuvre finds a somber and
elegant expression in this series that signifies the end of an era.

This exhibition is funded by grants from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Columbia Foundation.

Past Exhibitions
View descriptions and selected photos from
exhibitions of the past few years here.

Admission:
(suggested donation)
$5 for general public
$2 for students and seniors
FREE for SFCW members
Open late First Thursday of each month
Free admission First Tuesday of each month