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San Francisco, CA 94105-4104
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San Francisco Camerawork
Founded in 1974 San Francisco Camerawork encourages emerging and mid-career artists to explore new directions in photography and related media by fostering creative forms of expression that push existing boundaries. |
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Through exhibitions, publications, and educational programs, Camerawork stimulates public dialogue and inquiry about contemporary image-making in the context of current social and aesthetic issues. Camerawork has presented nearly 400 exhibitions in its thirty years of support and services to local, national, and international artists. Additionally, Camerawork has produced many exhibition catalogs and a publication, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts. Other educational programs and informational services offered are lectures, workshops, conferences, critique sessions, a reference library, and an active internship program.
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artistic and education programs
Exhibitions
Since its inception in 1974, San Francisco Camerawork has provided exposure and support for the work of emerging and mid-career artists at critical points in their careers. Camerawork has presented over 330 exhibitions highlighting local, national and international contemporary photographers in its thirty year history. Camerawork is also instrumental in bringing traveling exhibitions to the Bay Area.
In addition to photography, Camerawork exhibits artists working in installation, video, film and related media. The organization's Board of Directors and Staff are committed to responding to the shifting needs of artists and helping to nurture new forms of artistic expression in an era of complex cultural change.
Lectures and Events
The ongoing lecture series addresses a broad range of issues in photography and brings emerging and established photographers, historians, writers, and critics to Bay area audiences. Past lecturers have included Keith Carter, Albert Chong, Lucy Lippard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Olivia Parker, Holly Roberts, Naomi Rosenblum, William Wegman, Pat Ward Williams, Garry Winogrand, and Joel-Peter Witkin. In conjunction with the exhibitions program, Camerawork sponsors lectures and special events which stimulate dialogue about the work on exhibit and encourage community participation.
Journal
CAMERAWORK: A JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS is a magazine devoted to presenting quality reproductions and writing that reflect contemporary issues in the photographic arts. It is distributed to Camerawork's members as well as museums, libraries, arts organizations, and universities nationally and abroad. Six commercial distributors also carry the magazine. It is published twice a year.
First Exposures:
Youth Opportunities Through Photography
First Exposures is a mentoring program which uses art education as a means to develop transferable skills and foster supportive intergenerational relationships between artists and formerly homeless and low-income creative young people. Classes meet for field trips and at Harvey Milk Photo Center for darkroom work. Students and mentors meet every Saturday for at least five months and then they present an exhibition of their work.
Reference Library
Our Reference Library presently houses 3,000 titles and 50 periodicals and contains listings of 2,500 photographers, making it a valuable community resource. The library will
once again be open to the public beginning in the spring of
2008.
staff
Sharon Tanenbaum
Executive Director
Chuck Mobley
Curator
Cassie Riger
Development Director
Erik Auerbach
Education Coordinator
Chelsea Morse
Gallery Manager
Andrew Goodrich
Operations Coordinator
board of directors
OFFICERs
Kirsten Wolfe
President
Heather Snider
Vice President
Charlotte V. Ero
Treasurer
Gardner Robinson
Secretary
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Holly Baxter
Steven Blumenkranz
Julie Casemore
Jack Flesher
Lizelle Green
Gretchen Hansen
Heather Kessinger
Alexander Lloyd
Martin Maguss
Jack McDonald
Thomas V. Meyer
RJ Muna
Jeffrey O'Connell
Teresa Peluso
Varsha Rao
Gardner Robinson
Tabitha Soren
Dr. Stephen Vance
Rodney Withers
interns - summer 2008
Ashley Batz
Kim Campisano
Emily Carr
Kirsten Corbett
Scott Dow
Amylly Dumalig
Ivan Feerman
Peggy Frykholm
Melissa Hempel
Jennifer Jordan
Bridget Moriarty
Laura Poppiti
Devora Zauderer
funders
SF Camerawork is supported in part by grants from:
Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund
The San Francisco Arts Commission
National Endowment for the Arts
Aepoch
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Banana Republic
The Baum Foundation
Bernard Osher Foundation
Bothin Foundation
Columbia Foundation
Comer Foundation
Fleishhacker Foundation
The Gap Foundation
Joseph R. Parker Foundation
Lillian H. Florsheim Foundation
LEF Foundation
Miranda Lux Foundation
The Nelson Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
New Belgium Brewing Co.
The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
Potrero Nuevo Fund of the Tides Foundation
The Pritzker Family Fund
The San Francisco Foundation
Thendara Foundation
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
The Marnie Gillett Curatorial Fund
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Individual contributors and Camerawork's membership.
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