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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Foreword /Thomas P. Campbell --Essays.Arnold Genthe and the California Camera Club /Carolin Görgen --Retracing Genthe's journey step-by-step /James A. Ganz -- An African American presence revealed in Arnold Genthe's 1906 earthquake and fire photographs /Rodger C. Birt --Freezing fire : Arnold Genthe and his camera /Victoria Binder --:Get out with your 'Picture box'"" : photographers and the "San Francisco Horror" /Colleen Terry --Bearing witness, then and now /Richard Misrach --Plates.
When disaster struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906, photographer Arnold Genthe grabbed a pocket camera and ventured out to document the destruction. Now, over a century later, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts presents the definitive collection of Genthe's historic photographs