The Mission / Dick Evans ; foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera ; introduction by Carla Wojczuk.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley, California : Heyday ; San Francisco, California ; Precita Eyes Muralists Association, [2017]Description: pages cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781597143608 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Street art -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
- Mural painting and decoration, American -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
- Hispanic Americans -- California -- San Francisco ) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
- Hispanic Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- Pictorial works
- Hispanic Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Social conditions
- Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
- Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History -- Pictorial works
- Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Biography
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Poetry
- 979.4/61 23
- F869.S36 M575 2017
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | 979.4 EVA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 901082 |
We are now what we were then -- La Mision, la cultura, la lucha, la gente -- Pulse of the Mission -- Photographer's statement.
"Dick Evans captures the pulse of life in the Mission District, the San Francisco neighborhood known for its murals and Latin American culture--and more recently for its rapid gentrification. Intimate, colorful images depict a place filled with diverse residents, stately Victorian houses, hand-painted store signs, Carnaval dancers, Día de los Muertos celebrants, political activists, and its namesake, Mission Dolores (here juxtaposed against portraits of Native people and indigenous cultural objects). Poetry and quotations from Mission residents are interspersed throughout the book, deepening viewers' immersion into this community. But at the heart of the book is the Mission's famous public art: works that depict Latin American culture, resistance to political oppression, passion for environmental justice, and outrage at gentrification. Evans's photos highlight the very real threat to the neighborhood's character, but they also reveal the multifold changes that have shaped the neighborhood into its present-day, vivacious identity."--Provided by publisher.
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