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To say that I get a kick out of 100 Boots would be to make a bad pun and besides, Antin’s photographic tale of unmanned footwear on the go, beyond being droll and endearing, is unsettling. When I first saw it, its antic clarity moved me almost to tears. Read more on OPEN SPACE Pictured: Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots Trespass, from the series 100 Boots, a set of 51 photo-postcards, 1971

To say that I get a kick out of 100 Boots would be to make a bad pun and besides, Antin’s photographic tale of unmanned footwear on the go, beyond being droll and endearing, is unsettling. When I first saw it, its antic clarity moved me almost to tears.

Read more on OPEN SPACE

Pictured: Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots Trespass, from the series 100 Boots, a set of 51 photo-postcards, 1971

Today is International Workers’ Day. We’ve posted a selection of worker-related works from our permanent collection to our blog, so you can see just a few of the many angles from which artists have portrayed working men and women. Pictured here: Dorothea Lange’s Hoe Culture, Alabama (Tenant Farmer near Anniston), From the Resettlement Administration, 1936. Click here to see more artwork.

Today is International Workers’ Day. We’ve posted a selection of worker-related works from our permanent collection to our blog, so you can see just a few of the many angles from which artists have portrayed working men and women.

Pictured here: Dorothea Lange’s Hoe Culture, Alabama (Tenant Farmer near Anniston), From the Resettlement Administration, 1936.

Click here to see more artwork.

Pictured:Iain Baxter, Golden Gate Bridge, from the series Reflected San Francisco Beauty Spots, 1979 Beginning May 26, 2012, and extending through the summer, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents a series of tributes to the Bay Area’s beloved Golden Gate Bridge. Read more: Celebrates The Golden Gate Bridge at 75

Pictured:Iain Baxter, Golden Gate Bridge, from the series Reflected San Francisco Beauty Spots, 1979

Beginning May 26, 2012, and extending through the summer, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents a series of tributes to the Bay Area’s beloved Golden Gate Bridge.

Read more: Celebrates The Golden Gate Bridge at 75

Did Carleton Watkins’s photography save Yosemite, despite the fact that his life’s work burned in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake? Read about it on OPEN SPACE. Pictured here: Carleton E. Watkins. Mt. Broderick, Nevada Fall, 700 ft., Yo Semite, 1861.

Did Carleton Watkins’s photography save Yosemite, despite the fact that his life’s work burned in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake?

Read about it on OPEN SPACE.

Pictured here: Carleton E. Watkins. Mt. Broderick, Nevada Fall, 700 ft., Yo Semite, 1861.

Today marks 106 years since the San Francisco Earthquake rocked our city. The death toll from the disaster is estimated to be above 3,000, representing the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California’s history. Pictured here: Arnold Genthe’s Looking up Market Street towards Twin Peaks, 1906 (via SFMOMA) More photos from SFMOMA’s collection: Arnold Genthe, Untitled, 1906 Willard E. Worden, Earthquake Damage to Union Street, 1906 Grove Karl Gilbert, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, Frank Soulé, The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906…, 1907

Today marks 106 years since the San Francisco Earthquake rocked our city. The death toll from the disaster is estimated to be above 3,000, representing the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California’s history.

Pictured here: Arnold Genthe’s Looking up Market Street towards Twin Peaks, 1906

(via SFMOMA)

More photos from SFMOMA’s collection:

Arnold Genthe, Untitled, 1906

Willard E. Worden, Earthquake Damage to Union Street, 1906

Grove Karl Gilbert, Richard Lewis Humphrey, John Stephen Sewell, Frank Soulé, The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906…, 1907

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE! Born 182 years ago today, Muybridge was an accomplished bookseller, inventor, and businessman. He began pursuing his interest in photography in San Francisco in 1867, and went on to pioneer new ways of documenting the nature of movement. Today, Muybridge is known as one of the most influential and innovative photographers of his time. Featured here: Muybridge’s Daisy with Rider, 1887 (via SFMOMA)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE!

Born 182 years ago today, Muybridge was an accomplished bookseller, inventor, and businessman. He began pursuing his interest in photography in San Francisco in 1867, and went on to pioneer new ways of documenting the nature of movement. Today, Muybridge is known as one of the most influential and innovative photographers of his time.

Featured here: Muybridge’s Daisy with Rider, 1887

(via SFMOMA)

Claude Cahun (Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob), Untitled (Self-Portrait), ca. 1929 via Open Space

Claude Cahun (Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob), Untitled (Self-Portrait), ca. 1929

via Open Space

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born 126 years ago today. (via Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born 126 years ago today.

(via Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)

Before we stray from Puppy Day, here’s one more photo that makes our tail(s) wag!  Art Rogers, Bob and Stan with Buster the Dog, Point Reyes, California (via SFMOMA)

Before we stray from Puppy Day, here’s one more photo that makes our tail(s) wag! 

Art Rogers, Bob and Stan with Buster the Dog, Point Reyes, California

(via SFMOMA)

artphotocollector:

“She had few boundaries and made art out of nothing: empty rooms with peeling wallpaper and just her figure. No elaborate stage set-up or lights.  Her process struck me more the way a painter works, making do with what’s right in front of her, rather than photographers like myself who need time to plan out what they’re going to do.”  —Cindy Sherman on Francesca Woodman

After a successful run at the SFMOMA, the Francesca Woodman show opens today at The Guggenheim here in New York.  While a lot of attention is being given these days (and rightly so) to the artist, Cindy Sherman, who has a major retrospective at the MoMA, I am predicting that attendance to see Francesca Woodman at the The Guggenheim will exceed all expectations.  And most importantly, it will introduce and inspire a new generation to her transformative work. 

Also worth noting, the documentary film The Woodmans (2011) provides a fascinating insight into her work, her family and her life. It is essential viewing for anyone interested in discovering more about this young, ambitious, and ultimately tragic artist.  —Lane Nevares

itsthemusicpeople: Mechón photographed by Manuel Alvarez Bravo on exhibit at SFMOMA

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Mechón photographed by Manuel Alvarez Bravo on exhibit at SFMOMA

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