Pier 24 Photo Museum is superb!  par excellence for  photographers and collectors of fine art photography!
Thank you for making this place free, accessible, and caring so much about the photographic medium.
Pier 24 gives photography a home for people to visit. Andy Pillara did a huge thing for  SF and its international
visitors.  Brava!
This place is huge, you need to make an appointment and take two hours to see it...at least if you can!
I brought my photos students there and they really  enjoyed themselves and I hope are using this as
a inspirational lift to their own photographic endeavors.
The photos at Pier 24 are supreme!  Ruth Berhard, Richard Misrach, Edward Weston, stand out in my mind's eye.

Black n white, beautiful prints, tonal ranges, large format prints and enlarged contact sheets!  Pretty cool stuff...
Now aesthetically speaking....top shelf all the way...lots of discussions going on with my students....they can learn a lot from this....lighting and form of shooting nudes, the perspective of architectural photography, the photo essays of Berkeley in the 70's (Misrach), traditional photography of
the California earthquakes....the devastation of the Oakland Fire Fire in large scale photography....very impressive.....can really "feel" the emotions in some of these photos...
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Coastal Cleanup at the Sat. Sept.17,2011

I was so glad to see lots of people, big and small  turn up this morning to clean Alameda beach. From the girl scouts,Rotary club, Christian churches,
and Buddhist monks to every day beachcombers and residents
of Alameda, people scoured the beach for debris. This of course made me very happy since this is a huge pet peeve of mine, so I rejoiced in the sight of the "coastal clean up troops". This is the garbage that I found in a very short time:
3 empty plastic crack bags, straws, tee shirt, Mc Donald's cups,
Starbucks cups, diaper, and a load of horse dung, no shit, there
it was as biodegradable as it is, hay and all,  it looked nasty!
So I had a picker and removed it.  It could have  been a police
or park ranger's horse and I want to get my ticket book out and
cite them for littering.  Big horse turds should be worth at least $100.00
for the crap!
Ok since the regional park rangers are cool people I will let them get a free gallop this  time on the beach.....but next time, pooper scooper please! Along with plastic bags gloves, and pickers the East Bay Regional Park  gave out free embroidered patches, little cardboard license plates,granola bars, and beverages.  I like that it said"Coastal Cleanup I helped"...
I clean this beach on my own....and today, I had the community.
It is great to have the kids there so they see the litter on the beach and learn and understand good stewardship of the coast and the land.

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