What Public Life Used to Look Like in San Francisco’s Mission District Janet Delaney’s photographs capture the last moment when American neighborhoods were the essential nodes of a tight network of pluralistic local life that spilled into the streets. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-public-life-used-to-look-like-in-san-franciscos-mission-district The photographer Janet Delaney first came to San Francisco in 1967,…
The radical history of ’80s San Francisco, in photos San Francisco in the ’80s was a study in contrasts. As the shadows of gentrification began to creep over the heart of the city, just South of Market, the people of the Mission took to the streets to protest the policies coming out of the Reagan…
Photographs of a Place That Transformed San Francisco in the Early ’80s Janet Delaney grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and moved to San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood in 1978, finding herself at the heart of an area… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/07/12/janet_delaney_s_south_of_market_a_look_back_at_a_changing_san_francisco.html Janet Delaney grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and moved…
South of Market via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/01/south-of-market-janet-delaney-photography.html#slide_ss_0=1 Delaney began taking photographs with a view camera. She initially shot construction sites near her apartment, including the vast Moscone convention center. “Since this twenty-acre site was in the middle of town, I began to wonder what had been bulldozed to make way for it,” she told…
