Category: art stuff

SF Camerawork closing

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Camerawork will close its doors at the end of August 2026

PASSING ALONG

Last Operating Week
Our last week of operation is this Wednesday through Sunday. We will be open from 11 AM to 6 PM.

August Members' Critique
The August 16 Members' Critique will be our last. If you've already signed up, we look forward to seeing you from 4–6 PM.

https://sfcamerawork.org/sf-camerawork-homepage

>> SF Camerawork began as Lamkin Camerawork Gallery in Fairfax. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, its founder John Lamkin brought the gallery to San Francisco and sold it to his gallery volunteers for $1. It became a nonprofit in 1977. Photographers like Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips and Hal Fischer are associated with the gallery’s early days — artists who were expanding understandings of photography as a conceptual tool in the ’70s and ’80s.

Early Organizers

  • Hal Fischer: Conceptual photographer and writer known for works like Gay Semiotics.
  • Donna-Lee Phillips: Conceptual photographer and early champion of alternative photographic processes.
  • Lew Thomas: Artist, publisher, and central figure in West Coast conceptual photography.
  • John Lamkin: Photographer who initially helped establish the venue under the early name Lamkin Camerawork Gallery.
  • Craig Morey: Photographer and early organizing member.
  • Ted Hedgpeth: Artist and early participant in the collective

p2. Nettles notes OptiQuals

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socializing 60s. broaden the art morality, increase individual diversity as we increased the expressive depth. you become the authorial individual.
alt was opposed to an image style .. a post-kodak, alt-ansel mannerism of materials. change the meaning, revise the purpose by altering your material..

Eliminate your chain of dependence by dropping the Pre-made.

my keywords: process the teacher. PLUS was it pan matrix

2s’Day — 3.3.26

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in two parts– from the Hermitage, but not about it .

Béla Tarr (21 July 1955 – 6 January 2026, 70y). Tarr was a critic of nationalism. In a 2016 interview said, “Trump is the shame of the United States. Mr. Orbán is the shame of Hungary. Marine Le Pen is the shame of France. Et cetera.”[ — wikip.]

he said his films had been misunderstood: “My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.” He added that they were not pessimistic. “I only ask this – how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger.” — guardian, 2024.

Tarr tempts me to open a roll of film… to modify my current table.. however, my self powered life demands I walk my path with sideward glances to others, many others.

There are several YTubes… this is one I saved —

https://youtu.be/ywrR1jLBZaU?si=dWJNXRZMieyRGmjn

or, more –=> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrCVhnuMcIF13XnjLDqylpbStRWAVVB9&si=CoJyPLyGSRM-SpVK

Notes about topics, timings, temptations... daily, I ask myself the simple question of why. It is answered but remains, recurs daily. As if the question is more important than any answer… any found answer. So to the curious, I will be marking posts as PHO or NOPH in the “excerpt” sent out into the netiverse. Also, some remarks on remakes, etc will have an image something like: