Pier 24 Photography

Pier 24 Photography

Established	2010
Location	Pier 24, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°47′21″N 122°23′16″W / 37.7891323°N 122.3877268°W
Type	Photography, Art, Nonprofit organization
Visitors	Free by Appointment
Founder	Andrew Pilara and Mary Pilara
Director	Christopher McCall
Public transit access	Muni: Folson & Embarcadero Station Lines N Judah S Castro Shuttle T Third Street E Embarcadero B.A.R.T.: Embarcadero Station
Nearest parking	Pier 30 Parking Lot Harrison & Embarcadero
Website	www.pier24.org

Pier 24 Photography is a non-profit art museum located on the Port of San Francisco directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The organization houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation, which collects, preserves and exhibits photography.^[1][2] It produces exhibitions, publications, and public programs.^[3] Pier 24 Photography is the largest exhibition space in the world dedicated solely to photography.^[4][5]

Collection

Revelations – the Diane Arbus retrospective organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2003 – inspired the purchase of the Pilara Foundation’s first photograph, a portrait from her "Untitled" series.^[6] The collection has grown to over 4,000 works spanning the history of the medium and its international breadth. At the collection’s core are those photographers first exhibited in two seminal twentieth century exhibitions: New Documents (1967) at the Museum of Modern Art and New Topographics (1975) at George Eastman Museum. In recent years, the Foundation has collected more emerging photographers in depth, developing holdings that reflect evolving practices within the medium.^[7][8]

Exhibitions

• Pier 24: The Inaugural Exhibition, March 16, 2010 – June 16, 2010^[9]
• From the Collection of Randi and Bob Fisher, September 16, 2010 – February 28, 2011^[10]
• Here., May 23, 2011 – January 31, 2012^[11][12]
• About Face, May 15, 2012 – April 30, 2013^[13]
• A Sense of Place, July 1, 2013 – May 30, 2014^[14][15]
• Secondhand, August 1, 2014 – May 31, 2015^[16][17]
• The Whiteness of the Whale, August 3, 2015 – February 29, 2016^[18][19][20]
• Collected, May 2, 2016 – January 31, 2017^[21][22]

Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program

The Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program is a collaboration between Pier 24 Photography, California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art created in honor of the influential Bay Area photographer and educator, Larry Sultan.^[23] Each year, the program brings six international artists to San Francisco. During their visits, artists provide a free lecture open to the public. They also work with graduate students at California College of the Arts, mentoring them in the studio and taking them on city-wide fieldtrips.^[24][25]

Visiting artists

2010

• Thomas Demand (German)
• Naoya Hatakeyama (Japanese)

2011

• Paul Graham (British)
• Erik Kessels (Dutch)
• Sophie Calle (French)
• Walid Raad (Lebanese)
• Cuny Janssen (Dutch)
• Alec Soth (American)

2012

• Stephen Shore (American)
• Jason Fulford (American)
• LaToya Ruby Frazier (American)
• Charlotte Cotton (British)
• Zoe Strauss (American)
• David Goldblatt (South African)

2013

• Tod Papageorge (American)
• Martin Parr (British)
• Mark Steinmetz (American)
• Rinko Kawauchi (Japanese)
• Collier Schorr (American)
• Kalup Linzy (American)

2014

• Anouk Kruithof (Dutch)
• Philip Gefter and Mike Mandel (American)
• Michael Wolf (German)
• Charlotte Cotton (British)
• Joel Sternfeld (American)
• Simon Baker (British)
• David Levi Strauss (American)

2015

• Laura Wexler (American)
• Daniel Gordon (American)
• Paul Graham (British)
• Alison Rossiter (American)
• Owen Kydd (Canadian)

2016

• John Divola (American)
• An-My Lê (American)
• Marco Breuer (German)^[26]

Larry Sultan Photography Award

In 2016, Pier 24 Photography in partnership with California College of the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art launched the Larry Sultan Photography Award. The award includes a six to ten week residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and a $10,000 cash award.^[27]

Recipients

• 2016: Marco Breuer^[28]

Publications

• Here., San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9839917-0-0. Exhibition guide.
• About Face, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9839917-1-7. Exhibition guide.
• A Sense of Place, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9839917-3-1. Exhibition guide.
• About Face. San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9839917-2-4. Exhibition catalog. Edition of 1000 copies. With forewords by Christopher McCall, and Richard Avedon (from In The American West), an introduction by Philip Gefter, and texts by Sandra S. Phillips, and Ulrike Schneider.
• Secondhand, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9839917-5-5. Exhibition guide.
• A Sense of Place, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9839917-4-8. Exhibition catalog. Edition of 1000 copies.
• Conversations: Secondhand, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2015. ISBN 978-0-9839917-7-9.
• Paul Graham: The Whitness of the Whale, London: Mack; San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2015. ISBN 978-1-91016-432-7.
• Day for Night Photographs by Richard Learoyd, New York: Aperture; San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2015.^[29][30] ISBN 978-1-59711-329-8.
• Rochester 585/716: A Postcard from America Project, New York: Aperture; San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2015.^[31] ISBN 978-1-59711-340-3. Edition of 1000 copies.

The building

Nelson Steamship Company - Pier 24 San Francisco

Located just south of the Ferry Building on the Port of San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography is housed in the Pier 24 annex. Originally designed to connect Piers 24 and Pier 26, the Pier 24 annex was originally built to be a 28,000 square foot cargo shed for truck side loading. Pier 24 was constructed between 1912 and 1916, and the annex followed in 1935-36. Several businesses were housed in Pier 24 annex over the twentieth century, including Nelson Steamship Company, American-Hawaiian Steamship Company and Williams, Diamond & Company. The principal cargo stored by these companies included sugar, copra, vanilla, whale oil, and hides. Pier 24 was demolished after its transit shed and bulkhead caught fire in 1997. While the last remnants of Pier 24’s substructure were fully demolished in 2004, the Pier 24 annex remained intact.

References

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18. Gefter, Phillip (21 February 2016). "Paul Graham and Seizing the Everyday Moments". The New York Times.
19. Harrison Tedford, Matthew (19 August 2015). "Paul Graham's Photos Tell Expansive Story of Everyday America". KQED. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
20. Haeusslein, Allie (October 28, 2015). "Paul Graham on The Whiteness of the Whale at Pier 24 Photography". Aperture Foundation. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
21. Desmarais, Charles (June 3, 2016). "Photography show a snapshot of collectors' selves". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
22. Pollock, Lindsay (May 16, 2016). "Local Largesse: Collected in San Francisco". Art in America. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
23. Winant, Carmen (4 November 2014). "The Influence and Legacy of Larry Sultan". time.com. Time. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
24. "Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program & Award". California College of the Arts. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
25. http://pier24.org/programs/
26. http://pier24.org/lecture/marco-breuer-3/
27. "Larry Sultan Photography Award - Headlands Center for the Arts". Headlands Center for the Arts.
28. "Marco Breuer Wins Larry Sultan Award". Photograph. 4 October 2015.
29. De Stefani, Lucia (29 September 2015). "See the Eerie Life-Size Portraits Created in a Camera Obscura". Time. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
30. De Jong, Laura (25 November 2015). "Day For Night". GUP magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
31. Grossman, Debbie (25 September 2015). "How Does it Feel To Have Magnum Photographers Document Your Town?". American Photo magazine. Retrieved 12 June 2016.

External links

• Official web page
• Pier 24 on Vimeo