Meet SF Street Photographer Dave Glass “Central City 1970-2016”

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Street photographer Dave Glass discusses his current show at TLM, Central City 1970-2016, with his collaborators, fellow photographers, and co-directors of the Tenderloin’s Book and Job Gallery, Adrian Martinez & Austin Leong.

Dave Glass is a prolific street photographer with a working class perspective whose oeuvre could function as a lyric history of San Francisco in photographs. His current show at the Tenderloin Museum, Central City 1970-2016, surveys the guts of our city: the routines, rituals, and recurrences of its denizens, a tall pour from an old barkeep, a parade down Market Street, and the familiar glow of the corner store’s neon sign.

On Thursday December 7th, Glass discusses his 50+ long year photography practice and Central City 1970-2016 with Adrian Martinez & Austin Leong, co-directors of the Tenderloin’s Book and Job Gallery. In addition to running the gallery, Martinez & Leong are themselves photographers and both work as arts professionals in San Francisco. This year (2023), they collaborated with Glass on Wash Castle, a collection of Glass’ photographic portraits of launderettes, published on their collaborative press, illetante books. All three share a deep interest in the relationship between place and people, in street photography, and in San Francisco.

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