SF Camerawork
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Former name | Lamkin Camerawork Gallery |
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| Established | 1974 |
| Location | Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd, Building A, San Francisco, CA 94123 |
| Coordinates | 37°46′54″N 122°24′38″W / 37.781803°N 122.410469°W |
| Founder | John Lamkin |
| Website | www |
SF Camerawork is a non-profit art gallery in San Francisco, California dedicated to new ideas and directions in photography.
SF Camerawork was founded in 1974 by John Lamkin and a group of artists, initially calling it "Lamkin Camerawork Gallery".[1][2][3]
Allie Haeusslein writes in the British Journal of Photography:
SF Camerawork was founded in 1974 with the mission of promoting emerging photographers and encouraging diverse approaches to the medium; Hal Fischer, Donna-Lee Phillips and Lew Thomas – three influential conceptual photographers of the period – were among those involved in establishing the cooperative organisation. SF Camerawork fearlessly mounted early-career solo exhibitions for Joel-Peter Witkin (1982), Allan Sekula (1985), Uta Barth (1994), Todd Hido (1997), Gregory Halpern (2007) and Meghann Riepenhoff (2016), just a few of the exhibited artists that are now well-known names. It has organised compelling (and, in some cases, prescient) thematic exhibitions about photography in California, photomontage, identity politics, and digital photography.[4]
