A Photographer’s Summer of Luck in San Francisco Fifty years ago, San Francisco was the setting for cultural and political upheaval. And Arthur Tress was the lucky young photographer who captured it. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/a-photographers-summer-of-luck-in-san-francisco/ Arthur Tress didn’t waste time. Using a 2 1/4-inch Rolleicord (the model Diane Arbus preferred), he shot 900 negatives…
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of both the 28th Republican National Convention (the “Goldwater Convention”) and the launch of the Beatles’ first North American tour. The young photographer Arthur Tress arrived at this opportune moment in…
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/28/california-dreaming-in-1964-arthur-tress-san-francisco/#1 Tress took this same approach with him to San Francisco, trying to create a collection of images that would reflect the old and new aspects of the city. “I was thinking as a kind of amalgam, all these little bits and…
