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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55052972358/" title="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 22"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052972358_1578738997_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 22" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/peter-r/">PR Photography</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/peter-r/55051899332/" title="_MG_5096"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55051899332_018e52db3c_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="_MG_5096" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55052972353/" title="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 25"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052972353_cf99e635cc_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 25" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55051891477/" title="North Beach - 012026 - 01"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55051891477_ef65a53d6f_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="North Beach - 012026 - 01" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55053138730/" title="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 07"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55053138730_9e350578d2_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 07" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/19159227@N06/">Stan-the-Rocker</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/19159227@N06/55052795331/" title="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 28"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052795331_ab3ed3e92a_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="SF Chinatown - 012026 - 28" /></a></p> <p></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/17185003@N03/">JB by the Sea</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/17185003@N03/55053076455/" title="Little Girl with Blonde Hair, by Berthe Morisot"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55053076455_08dc0f3050_m.jpg" width="192" height="240" alt="Little Girl with Blonde Hair, by Berthe Morisot" /></a></p> <p>This dates to 1883-1884, and may be a portrait of Morisot's niece Jeannie Gobillard.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dalecruse/">dalecruse</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalecruse/55052814003/" title="Lombard Street, 1989 — The Long View North"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052814003_e074c35e83_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Lombard Street, 1989 — The Long View North" /></a></p> <p>Lombard Street in 1989, looking straight down the city’s spine toward Telegraph Hill. From this vantage, San Francisco reveals itself as a study in repetition and restraint: tight blocks, flat roofs, and a disciplined grid softened by light, distance, and topography. Coit Tower rises calmly above the scene, anchoring the composition without dominating it, while the Bay fades into pale blue at the edge of the frame.<br /> <br /> The famous curves in the foreground are almost incidental here. What matters more is the transition—from the ornamental choreography of brick paving and low walls into the relentless linearity of the street beyond. Buildings stack and recede with a clarity that feels almost analytical, a reminder that San Francisco’s drama often comes from elevation rather than height.<br /> <br /> Restored from a 1989 photograph, the image keeps the character of the era intact. Colors are warm but controlled, shadows remain present, and the city reads as lived-in rather than picturesque. Cars, pedestrians, and planted greenery exist in balance, not as spectacle but as context. It’s a view that rewards patience: the longer you look, the more the city’s underlying order reveals itself, quietly and without performance.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dalecruse/">dalecruse</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalecruse/55051734102/" title="Fisherman’s Wharf, 1989 — Brass, Wood, and Motion"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55051734102_6941c8f9fc_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Fisherman’s Wharf, 1989 — Brass, Wood, and Motion" /></a></p> <p>Fisherman’s Wharf in 1989, when the neighborhood still felt more maritime than theatrical. The scene turns on materials: weathered wood, polished brass, painted steel, and sun-faded signage all competing quietly for attention. The cable car, cropped close and unapologetically physical, anchors the frame with its craft-first construction—handles worn smooth, lettering meant to last decades, not seasons.<br /> <br /> To the left, the Fisherman’s Wharf sign stands like a civic emblem rather than a logo, its circular form echoing the practical geometry of the working waterfront. Cars queue, pedestrians wait, and the crosswalk cuts a clean diagonal through the composition, giving the image its sense of movement without drama. Nothing is posed. Everything is in use.<br /> <br /> Restored from a 1989 photograph, the image keeps the era intact. Colors are warm but grounded, the sky open and unforced, shadows present but honest. There’s no nostalgia applied after the fact—just a careful return to how the place actually looked and functioned. This is San Francisco before polish became a strategy: busy, tactile, slightly improvised, and held together by infrastructure that assumed it would still matter tomorrow.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052497471/" title="Sheila Hicks, &quot;Meditation, Cconcentration, Elation (Twirl and Whirl),&quot; 2025"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052497471_0bce300112_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Sheila Hicks, &quot;Meditation, Cconcentration, Elation (Twirl and Whirl),&quot; 2025" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052841840/" title="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052841840_3960814e2e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF" /></a></p> <p>&quot;Rempart (Rampart),&quot; 2016</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55051594692/" title="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55051594692_ccb62543a2_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF" /></a></p> <p>&quot;The March to Sagesse (The March to Wisdom),&quot; 2015/2025</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052753584/" title="Ellsworth Kelly, &quot;Untitled (Mandorla),&quot; 1988"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052753584_6443cb65eb_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Ellsworth Kelly, &quot;Untitled (Mandorla),&quot; 1988" /></a></p> <p>in the permanent collection at SFMOMA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052674663/" title="Adrian Piper, &quot;Art for the Art World Surface Pattern,&quot; 1976"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052674663_ce37f3625d_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Adrian Piper, &quot;Art for the Art World Surface Pattern,&quot; 1976" /></a></p> <p>in the permanent collection at SFMOMA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55051593397/" title="Jess, &quot;Fig. 4 - Far and Few...: Translation #15,&quot; 1965"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55051593397_7c2b9656ec_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Jess, &quot;Fig. 4 - Far and Few...: Translation #15,&quot; 1965" /></a></p> <p>in the permanent collection at SFMOMA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052497511/" title="Jess, &quot;Fig. 4 - Far and Few...: Translation #15,&quot; 1965"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052497511_c30b660fcb_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Jess, &quot;Fig. 4 - Far and Few...: Translation #15,&quot; 1965" /></a></p> <p>in the permanent collection at SFMOMA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052753149/" title="David Wojnarowicz, &quot;The Deaht of American Spirituality,&quot; 1987"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052753149_fc20a2927b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="David Wojnarowicz, &quot;The Deaht of American Spirituality,&quot; 1987" /></a></p> <p>in the permanent collection at SFMOMA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052675523/" title="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052675523_58d4a4065d_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF" /></a></p> <p>&quot;Vers des horizons inconnus (Toward Unknown Horizons),&quot; 2023</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55052753344/" title="Ellsworth Kelly, &quot;Untitled (Mandorla),&quot; 1949 — painting"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55052753344_8e942a7d0b_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Ellsworth Kelly, &quot;Untitled (Mandorla),&quot; 1949 — painting" /></a></p> <p>in the permanent collection at SFMOMA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/arte/">C-Monster</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/55051594702/" title="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55051594702_e9f678ffcf_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Sheila Hicks, &quot;New Works,&quot; at SF" /></a></p> <p>&quot;Ondes de paix (Waves of Peace),&quot; 2024</p>

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