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Former name | Lamkin Camerawork Gallery |
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| Established | 1974 |
| Location | Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd, Building A, San Francisco, CA 94123 |
| Coordinates | 37°46′54″N122°24′38″W / 37.781803°N 122.410469°W |
| Founder | John Lamkin |
| Website | www |
SF Camerawork is a non-profit art gallery in San Francisco, California dedicated to new ideas and directions in photography.
SF Camerawork was founded in 1974 by John Lamkin and a group of artists, initially calling it "Lamkin Camerawork Gallery". [1] [2] [3]
Allie Haeusslein writes in the British Journal of Photography :
SF Camerawork was founded in 1974 with the mission of promoting emerging photographers and encouraging diverse approaches to the medium; Hal Fischer, Donna-Lee Phillips and Lew Thomas – three influential conceptual photographers of the period – were among those involved in establishing the cooperative organisation. SF Camerawork fearlessly mounted early-career solo exhibitions for Joel-Peter Witkin (1982), Allan Sekula (1985), Uta Barth (1994), Todd Hido (1997), Gregory Halpern (2007) and Meghann Riepenhoff (2016), just a few of the exhibited artists that are now well-known names. It has organised compelling (and, in some cases, prescient) thematic exhibitions about photography in California, photomontage, identity politics, and digital photography. [4]
According to Artweek:
SF camerawork has a dedicated Education Center and Library, with gallery and forum spaces to engage and to exhibit work by students from First Exposures, SF Camerworks’s photography mentoring program for at-risk youth. The 3,000 volume photography reference library includes many rare and out-of-print publications. [5]
Programming has included the publication, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts [5] and administration of the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography. [6]
About Solos, a program which began in 2005, and featured two or three artists in simultaneous solo exhibitions, Artweek writer Amber Whiteside states, “The aim of this new series is to provide a platform that accommodates multiple artists’ visions without forcing them together under a curatorial agenda.” [7]
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