 Ed Terpening Church, Near Liberty 2006 Digital Photograph, Nokia |
While walking up Church Street to Liberty to see the newly painted fire hydrant mentioned in my previous post  , I came across this mural. I was walking up hill, and the angles of the window and buildings seemed really interesting. The building on the left partially hidden by the window, is the "Call Building ", which survived the quake but was gutted by fire. At 18 stories, the Call Building was then the tallest building in San Francisco. |
 Rhea Bros. Powel & O’Farrell, Alcazar & Orpheum, 1906 vintage, platinum print signed 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches Availalbe at Stephen Wirtz Gallery Note the Call Building in the distance. |
While my photograph has a modern bent, in addition to the local museums featuring photographs (SF MOMA, The Legion of Honor, California Historical Society) there are galleries in town that are showing photographs by fine artists of the time, including Stephen Wirtz Gallery , Scott Nichols Gallery , The Hybrid Project (combines spoken word, dance and music) and an interesting art project that will involve a digital video projection onto Coit Tower by Ben Wood and David Mark.
I spoke to Stephen Wirtz about his exhibit. He explained that the focus of his show was on the aesthetics of the art, and organized around the artists themselves (as opposed to SF MOMA, which focused more on the event and the types of photographs available). |
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This is the kind of writing that gives grade-school English teachers and copyeditors heart attacks. They may as well have experienced an earthquake. First of all, you shouldn't precede "and" with a comma each time you use it. Secondly, your second paragraph (which is one long, droning sentence) is grammatically unacceptable. "While my photograph has a modern bent, in addition to the local museums featuring photographs ... there are galleries in town that are showing photographs by fine artists of the time ..." Read it again and edit, please. Blogs may have an informality to them that makes them endearing, but I hold this one to a much higher standard.