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All photos © Mimi Plumb

Photographer Mimi Plumb has explored subjects ranging from her suburban roots, to the United Farm Workers movement in the fields as they organized for union elections. Her current exhibition, The White Sky, at Robert Koch Gallery (October 4 - November 26, 2021) is also the title of her book published by Stanley Barker in 2020. Landfall, her first book published in 2018, is a collection of her images from the 1980’s, a dreamlike vision of an American dystopia encapsulating the anxieties of a world spinning out of balance. The Golden City, exploring similar themes from the 1980s, is due to be published this November 2021.

Mimi Plumb was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1986, and has taught photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a 2017 recipient of the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, and has received grants and fellowships from the California Humanities, the California Arts Council, the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, and the Marin Arts Council. Her photographs are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art; Pier 24; the Art Collection Deutsche Borse, Germany; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery.

The Golden City
by Mimi Plumb

Published by Stanley/Barker, 2021.

HERE to pre-order The Golden City on Stanley/Barker.

Landfall
by Mimi Plumb

Published by TBW Books, 2018.
120 pages, 53 duotone plates, 9.5 x 11.75" 

HERE to get the first edition, second printing of Landfall on TBW Books.

All photos © Dennis Hearne

Dennis Hearne has lived in North Beach, San Francisco since 1965. He attended and worked at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1960’s through 1978, earning a BFA and MFA. He has spent decades documenting the unique qualities of San Francisco’s eclectic personality and architectural heritage while promoting musicians, performers, personalities as well as the political spectrum of this city of aspiration and hope.

Hearne received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his photographs are in the collections of MOMA (NY), the British Arts Council, the Fogg Art Museum, the California Historical Museum, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), San Francisco City Hall, the San Francisco Mint, University of California, Southbank Centre, Cheltenham Art Gallery, Penn State, and UC Bakersfield.