The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Brooks Atkinson

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Oscar Wilde

Gizmo

2010

One of the joys of photography is that you never know what will come at you from around the next corner.

Tom Ang

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 1

South tower of the Golden Gate Bridge

2007

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 2

Grace

2013

Golden Gate Bridge Iron Workers

2007

 

A mural in Clarion Alley

San Francisco 2016

Clarion Alley Mural Project

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H

1984

Mural by Nicole Hayden of poet laureate Amanda Gorman

Located at Page and Laguna in the Hayes Valley, San Francisco

2021

Amanda Gorman reciting her poem at Biden's inauguration

 

Light and shadow at the front gate

2021

Photograph what makes you happy. It may not have value to anyone else, but it will have value to you.

David Allio

San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall

2015

Wilbur

2015

Samuel Steward

Berkeley, California 1987

Friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas

Sam gifted to me, horse hair from Gertrude and Alice's sofa in Paris, thorns from their rose bushes in Biligam, and Alice's old vegetable peeler.

Photography helps people to see.

Berenice Abbott

Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein collaborating on the opera, Four Saints in Three Acts.

First performance: February 8, 1934

The Met: Four Saints in Three Acts

Four Saints in Three Acts (Overture) Mark Morris Dance Group

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 3

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

The front cover of National Geographic Magazine 2018

(The image by photographer Jorge Gamboa and artist Matus Bence)

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Sam Abell

Afshin

2014

Don and Mary Ann Henggeler with 1 yr. old Ron

Virgil Thomson

1987

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 4

Front entrance to the San Francisco Olympic Club

2009

Paris, France

Holy Virgil Cathedral-Joy of all Who Sorrow

Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia

2007

San Francisco

Holy Virgin Cathedral

Alex

2018

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Oscar Wilde

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 5

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 6

Detail of the mural on the Post Street side of the Hamilton Recreation Center

Steiner & Post, San Francisco

2007

Hamilton Recreation Center

 

Alan

2012

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H

1987

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 7

 

Twin Peaks in San Francisco

Photo from Shorpy

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 8

Heidi Betz and Zahi Hawass

2015

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 9

 

Harkness Ballet

1960's

Photo by Mark Anstendig

anstendig.com

A view of the Transamerica Pyramid, from Telegraph Hill at Union & Montgomery

2007

California Volunteers by Douglas Tilden

Located at Market & Dolores, San Francisco

1906

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Oscar Wilde

John

2003

Eiffel Tower, Paris

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 10

The picture represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.

Alexey Brodovitch

A resident patient at Maitri in San Francisco 2012

Maitri Compassionate Care

A sign on the Golden Gate Bridge

2007

The full moon and the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge

2014

Peter

2014

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 11

Why?

Mark

1998

Fillmore Street at Hayes, San Francisco

OpenSFHistory.org

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 12

Drew

2015

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

Diane Arbus

Samuel Steward

Berkeley, California 1987

Friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas

Sam gifted to me, horse hair from Gertrude and Alice's sofa in Paris, thorns from their rose bushes in Biligam, and Alice's old vegetable peeler.

 

Le promenades d'Euclide (Where Euclid Walked) 1955

Oil on canvas

From the Magritte Show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2018

Chase

2014

Cover photo by R H

Detail of the mural on the Post Street side of the Hamilton Recreation Center

Steiner & Post, San Francisco

2007

Hamilton Recreation Center

Brad

2015

I Ching

The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge

2005

 

Brett

2014

San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall

2015

 

A mural in Clarion Alley

San Francisco 2016

Clarion Alley Mural Project

The eyes are the window to your soul.

William Shakespeare

 

The eyes are the window through which your soul looks out.

Mark Anstendig

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 13

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption

Cathedral Hill in San Francisco

Saint Mary's Cathedral

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 14

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

William Shakespeare

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 15

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H

circa 1981

John

2003

detail of: La clef de verre (The Glass Key) 1959 

Oil on canvas

From the Magritte Show at the San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art

2018

May Day Parade in Berlin

photo by Mark Anstendig

anstendig.com

Eureka

I have found it!

Tommy's Joint mural on Geary at Van Ness Avenue

San Francisco 2007

Sutro Heights near the Cliff House, San Francisco

Photo from Shorpy

California Volunteers by Douglas Tilden

Located at Market & Dolores, San Francisco

1906

 

Paris

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 16

 

 

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H

Bookstore on Valencia in the Mission District, San Francisco 1982

Detail of the mural on the Post Street side of the Hamilton Recreation Center

Steiner & Post, San Francisco

2007

Hamilton Recreation Center

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 17

Virgil Thomson 1987

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

Margaret Bourke-White

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Mark Anstendig

circa 1950's

Detail of the Amanda Gorman mural by Nicole Hayden

Located at Page and Laguna in the Hayes Valley, San Francisco

2021

Amanda Gorman reciting her poem at Biden's inauguration

Pen, ink, & Paper collage by R H

1991

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

circa late 1930's

Photo from Shorpy

The best is yet to come.

William Shakespeare