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Sausalito Houseboat Photo Exhibit Opens June 8
Exhibit: "Freebox - The Sausalito Waterfront Community of the 1970s"
Photographer: Bruce Forrester
Date: Opening Event Monday, June 8, 6:30 - 8:30 PM. Exhibition continues on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM.
Place: Sausalito Historical Society Room, 3rd Floor, Sausalito City Hall, 420 Litho St., Sausalito CA 94965
Celebrated local photographer Bruce Forrester just happened to live near the Sausalito houseboat community during the tumultuous period of the late 1970's. Taking photographs of places and moments near his home produced a series of images that have provided an enduring chronicle of that time.
Some of the photos ended up in the book Houseboats of Sausalito, by Sausalito humorist and historian Phil Frank and his wife Susan Frank.
The exhibit's opening event Monday night will kick off a summer run in the Sausalito Historical Society room at City Hall on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM.
Forrester's photography resides in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and has been displayed in the Focus Gallery, the Marin Civic Center, in Hawaii at the Village Gallery (the oldest gallery in the Hawaiian Islands) and at the Metropolitan Gallery.
In this photo from the “Freebox” exhibit, the Fat Rat Players present a musical in front of the ferry San Rafael. Photo © Bruce Forrester.
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My wife and I live on a houseboat, and we are looking forward to seeing these photo's. Will they be posted on the web?
IAN from www.all-about-houseboats.com
Posted by: All about Houseboats | 06/08/2009 at 07:03 AM
Ian, we'll see if we can come up with an answer to that. Some images are in the Phil Frank book we link to above, which is inexpensive and really informative.
Most professional photographers tend to be very cautious about releasing volumes of work on the Web, since it can lead to lots of people making free copies without ever giving the photographer any royalty.
Posted by: Editors | 06/09/2009 at 04:07 PM