How SF Inspired Photographers in the 1950s
Fred Lyon is 92 years old and has photographed his hometown, San Francisco, for more than 70 years. His rich black-and-white scenes conjure a bygone era, when flash powder still existed, being alone with your thoughts was common, and the famed cable cars were public transportation for locals, rather than rolling tourist traps headed to Fisherman’s Wharf. This 1954 image is from Pine Street in Nob Hill.
From “San Francisco Noir: Photos from the ‘40s and ‘50s” by Jonathan Blaustein for the New York Times, 2016; Photo by Fred Lyon, courtesy of Peter Fetterman Gallery
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