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Archives: April 2008Friday, April 18, 2008102 Years Ago This Morning...
It's the 102nd anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, and in observance of the event I put together an online gallery of photographs of the conflagration by San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe. Genthe, a German-born photographer noted for his portraits of turn-of-the century San Francisco society, documented the destruction with a borrowed camera after his studio was ruined by the earthquake. In Genthe's words, from his 1936 autobiography, As I Remember: I found that my hand cameras had been so damaged by the falling plaster as to be rendered useless. I went to Montgomery Street to the shop of George Kahn, my dealer, and asked him to lend me a camera. 'Take anything you want. This place is going to burn up anyway.' I selected the best small camera, a 3A Kodak Special. I stuffed my pockets with films and started out.The gallery, in this site's My Gallery section, includes original 1906 prints and some printed in the 1950s by Ansel Adams. It's hard to fathom the amount of destruction that occurred, especially when you think about what the places in these photos look like today. My Gallery: The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake, 1906 »
Posted by: Andrew Fox | April 18 at 11:57:59 AM Thursday, April 17, 2008More On-the-Wall Poetry from the Artist Studio
From Friday, April 4. Visitor-created poetry, part of the residency of April artist-in-residence Rosanna Raymond.
Posted by: Andrew Fox | April 17 at 2:41:37 PM Tuesday, April 15, 2008Rosanna Raymond at the de Young Artist Studio
This month in the de Young Artist Studio features artist-in-residence Rosanna Raymond, a New Zealand born Pacific Islander of Samoan decent now based in London. As part of Raymond's work, visitors to the Kimball Education Gallery can participate in the art studio by, among other things, create poetry by arranging words from Raymond's "word bank" on the gallery walls. We'll be posting some of the poetry here on the blog, and, making up for lost time, here are the poems from April 2, the first day of Rosanna Raymond's residency:
Posted by: Andrew Fox | April 15 at 4:39:26 PM Friday, April 11, 2008An Interview with Chihuly
We've released another podcast! The latest edition features an interview with artist Dale Chihuly, whose large-scale exhibition, Chihuly at the de Young, arrives at the de Young on June 14 and runs through September 28, 2008. In it, Chihuly discusses, the exhibition, the installations currently on view at the de Young and Legion of Honor (Saffron Tower at the de Young is pictured), and his own personal collections.
Posted by: Andrew Fox | April 11 at 2:37:22 PM Friday, April 4, 2008When Art and Nature Coexist
I heard that there was a hummingbird nest in the de Young's Fern Court, so I headed downstairs to take a look at it. I happened to have the digital camera on hand right when Mom flew in to feed her baby, which is what you see in the first photo. You can see the baby's little head poking up above the nest in both pictures.
Posted by: Andrew Fox | April 4 at 5:34:11 PM |
