Sutro Baths, 1910
Rayko Photo Center (428 3rd Street) is hosting a photo show entitled Sutro San Francisco: The ‘Outside Lands’ a Century Apart.
The show features the work of photographer Dan Ross, who for this exhibit, juxtaposes black-and-white photos from a 1910 survey of Adolph Sutro’s estate in the northwest corner of the Richmond District with his own current shots of the same areas:
San Francisco-based photographer Don Ross spent a year re-photographing vantages around the City that were originally pictured in a 1910 estate survey of the many tracts of land owned by famed millionaire Adolph Sutro (1830-1898)… On these tracts located by the beach in the ‘Outside Lands’ [Sutro] built his American Dream for his family and shared his wealth onhealthy prozac anxiety with the public through access to the Baths, an adjacent museum, numerous parks and forests, and what was at the time the largest collection of books on the West Coast.
Ross’ objective is to contrast the old with the new using his 4×5″ format camera, and to show how San Francisco was shaped as its residents moved into the 20th Century. A book containing over 30 before-and-after views is also available for purchase at the show.
The RayKo Photo Center is located at 428 3rd Street and is open Tuesday – Thursday from 10am until 10pm, and Friday – Saturday from 10am until 8pm. The Sutro San Francisco: The ‘Outside Lands’ a Century Apart show runs through September 15th.
Sarah B.
[via SFWeekly]
Ross includes a good variety of locations, from Sutro Baths and the Sutro mansion, to Mt. Olympus, Laguna Honda Reservoir, 48th and Lincoln, West Portal, and Sunnyside. The original 1910 book, now in the collection or care of SFMOMA, had 62 photos; it will be interesting to see what else was captured. Gallery is on 3rd St. between Harrison and I-80; MUNI 30 and 45. As of Sunday, the book is not in stock at the gallery (working copy was at the opening) but can be ordered.
Neat view. The mansard-roofed building at the rear of Sutro Baths (in the foreground of the photo) housed the mixing tanks, boilers, and steam calliope (visible in some views of the interior). It was clearly fairly good-sized, but dwarfed by the bathing hall.