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- A lone Bernd and Hilla Becher image that shows industrial machinery in context with housing and a graveyard. The rest of the room was filled with the large traditional grids of typologies.
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- This fantastic Arbus print is exquisitely dark, with just enough shadow detail to show off the luminous light highlighting the subjects.
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- Another dark, and wonderfully contrasty Arbus print.
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- This print must be vintage, as it shows a rather severe wave along both sides. One of the only prints in the exhibit with any issues.
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- This Eggleston print absolutely lept off the wall. Seeing this image a bit larger than book size made it a new favorite.
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- Two famous barbershop photos side-by-side. Walker Evans, and Robert Frank.
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- A big grid of work from Lee Friedlander’s America by Car series. The whole Friedlander room is superb.
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- This non-traditional hanging for some of the Winogrand work on display was fun. Great selection of images, too.
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- The familiar looking smiling lady on the right in this Winogrand photo is Diane Arbus.
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- A whole room is dedicated to a group of small, quiet prints by Robert Adams. A number of the images are night photographs.
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- This small Charles Sheeler photo from the Rouge Plant series is a knockout.
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- There are three rooms of Walker Evans photos, including this Coney Island couple. There is a wide range of work on display including everything from FSA work to signs, to 70′s Polaroids.
What if I told you there was a place in San Francisco to view an amazing collection of modern photography from the 1920′s to present.
And what if it was free to get in. And the space was huge.
And only 20 people were allowed in at a time, so you could stand in front of your favorites as long as you want.
And there were no crowds. And it was quiet.
This amazing place exists. It’s called Pier 24.
A whole room of Bernd and Hilla Becher typologies.
A whole room of Lee Friedlander.
A whole room of Robert Adams.
Arbus. Eggleston. Winogrand. Frank. Evans. Sugimoto. Misrach. Weston. Stieglitz. Strand.
The current exhibit runs through February 28th. Appointments to view the collection are available starting on January 3rd. Get this on your calendar for 2011!
Update: More motivation to visit Pier 24 from B.
This is the Bob Fisher collection… combined with the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation. Have yet to traipse over there, but it sounds like a good excuse to take a Saturday ferry ride.
Tom – definitely worth the ride. This show is almost entirely from the Bob Fisher collection, with a couple of large photos by Gursky and Struth that belong to Don. I didn’t mention the large, ostentatious work of Gursky and Struth above because I don’t like it, and it seems out of place.
Note that Pier 24 is open Monday – Thursday from 9-5 and you must book an appointment well in advance. Worth playing hooky for a 3:15pm viewing one day.
Neet. Take me next time.
Doesn’t one of those piers burn down like once every 10 years or so? Not sure I’d keep my priceless artwork there . . .
Pier 24 is right next to the fire station.
Aww–you weren’t supposed to tell anyone
And though I love the Bechers I think that Robert Adams room is the most amazing thing there. It’s like a little shrine, and even when there are five people ogling the Robert Franks you can go in to the Robert Adams chapel and have it all to yourself.
Agree. That almost completely black Adams print is nuts. Anyone who enjoyed Summer Nights, Walking will marvel at the Adams room.