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008			060517s2006 caum a000 0 eng
020			_a1597140406
035			_a(AEA)B804C272D5FC41B2BC7C1CEEE545D27B
035			_a(OCoLC)69671868
035			_a.b63099512
050			_aF 869.S343 _b.N867 2006
100			_aNowinski, Ira. _9107894
245		0	_aIra Nowinski's San Francisco : _bpoets, politics, and divas / _cpreface by Jack von Euw ; foreword by Rebecca Solnit.
260			_aBerkeley, Calif. : _bBancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, _cc2006.
300			_a127 p. : _bchiefly ill. _c31 cm.
520			_aCultural Writing. Poetry. Photography. What catches Ira Nowinski's eye and what he captures with his lens are people-the beat poets of North Beach, opera divas radiating passion and delighting in adulation, cigar-smoking old Italians, tenant organizers, and an alert shirtless old man in a boxer's stance. These are photographs from three decades that speak eloquently and powerfully about the timeless virtues of courage and dignity, photographs that probe the depth of the human spirit, indeed the very heart of San Francisco. "I have written about coteries, but artists like Nowinski represent rovers, people who study and document other communities and make it possible to see something of how culture is born and nurtured in many places. This is art in service of memory, the memory of the enormous variety one species has developed, of struggles to survive, of arias, celebrations, friendships, and dreams"--Rebecca Solnit. www.alibris.com
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