Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]THE FRIENDS OF PHOTOGRAPHY TO CLOSE SAN FRANCISCO -- The board of trustees of The Friends of Photography has announced that the San Francisco-based nonprofit organization and its popular museum, the Ansel Adams Center, will close its doors permanently October 31, 2001, and that its programs and assets are being transferred to other San Francisco Bay Area organizations for the ongoing benefit of its members and the public. Founded January 2, 1967, in Carmel, California, by famed photographer Ansel Adams and several of his colleagues, including Brett Weston, Morley Baer and Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, The Friends of Photography is internationally renowned for its success in promoting photography as a fine art through its extensive publications, exhibitions, awards, workshops, and education and outreach programs. Its gallery was one of the first in the country devoted exclusively and independently to exhibiting fine art photography. The Friends moved to San Francisco in 1989, and was the first nonprofit arts institution to make its home in the now burgeoning South of Market/Yerba Buena Gardens arts and entertainment district. In January 2001, the organization moved from Fourth Street into handsome new facilities at 655 Mission Street, around the corner from SFMOMA. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html