Speaker Series: Fine Art Photographer Stephen Johnson
Description
Golden Gate Park: Our Urban Eden
Come explore San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with photographer Stephen Johnson as he walks us through Urban Eden, his five-year photo project on the park.
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is 1,017 acres of human-transformed sand dunes and rocky hills made into an expansive urban park, offering refuge to one of the great cities of the world. Urban Eden is a photographic exploration of the beauty, diversity, and sheer power of will in planning and creating spaces.
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About the Speaker:
Stephen Johnson has been teaching and working in photography since 1977. His photography explores the concerns of a landscape artist working in an increasingly industrialized world. His work has also concentrated on refining the new tools of digital photography and empowering individual artists to use these tools to express their ideas. His home base is in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Johnson’s books include At Mono Lake, the critically acclaimed The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland and Making a Digital Book. His pioneering work in digital photography, desktop color, and digital imaging has included software and product development for clients such as Apple, Adobe, Epson, Kodak, and Hewlett-Packard.
His photographic clients have included the Ansel Adams Publishing Trust, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Friends of Photography. Johnson's photographs have been widely published and collected internationally.
In 1999, Folio Magazine declared the publication of Johnson's digital photographs in Life Magazine to be one of the Top 15 Critical Events in magazine publishing in the twentieth century. In 2003, Johnson was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame, recognized for his achievements in Art. Canon named Steve as one of their Explorers of Light 2006-2021.
6 PM Pre-Talk Salon with the Photographer Before His 7 PM Presentation
Stephen will be available to discuss his photographs and will present a special one-night exhibit of his photographic prints. A selection of his books will also be for sale.