The Mission: Photographs by Dick Evans

Evans, Dick

ISBN 10: 159714360X / ISBN 13: 9781597143608

Published by Heyday Books, Berkeley, 2017

About this Item

Really stunning color photographs of mural art and other subjects in The Mission district of San Francisco. SIGNED by the photographer, Bill Evans and by former Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2017) Juan Felipe-Herrera on the title page without inscription. An impeccable collector's copy. It will be bubble-wrapped and very carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure that it arrives in pristine condition.

Seller Inventory # ABH2743

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mission: Photographs by Dick Evans
• Publisher: Heyday Books, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159714360X
• ISBN 13: 9781597143608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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, 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 growing threat to the neighborhood’s character, but they also reveal the many changes that have shaped the neighborhood into its vivacious present-day identity.

About the Author

Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a forty-seven-year career in the global metals industry that took him all over the world. San Francisco always remained home base, though, and he now lives in the city with his wife, Gretchen. Evans is the author of the photography book San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition (InTransit Images and The Booksmith, 2011).