Artist Talk: Dave Glass with Adrian Martinez & Austin Leong

image: Dave Glass, Market and 6th, Tenderloin, San Francisco, 1991.

December 7, 2023 | 6-8pm

at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102

$10 Suggested Donation | Registration via Eventbrite

Street photographer Dave Glass discusses his current show at TLM, Central City 1970-2016, with his collaborators, fellow photographers, and co-directors of the Tenderloin’s Book and Job Gallery, Adrian Martinez & Austin Leong.

Dave Glass is a prolific street photographer with a working class perspective whose oeuvre could function as a lyric history of San Francisco in photographs. His current show at the Tenderloin Museum, Central City 1970-2016, surveys the guts of our city: the routines, rituals, and recurrences of its denizens, a tall pour from an old barkeep, a parade down Market Street, and the familiar glow of the corner store’s neon sign. 

On Thursday December 7th, Glass discusses his 50+ long year photography practice and Central City 1970-2016 with Adrian Martinez & Austin Leong, co-directors of the Tenderloin’s Book and Job Gallery. In addition to running the gallery, Martinez & Leong are themselves photographers and both work as arts professionals in San Francisco. This year (2023), they collaborated with Glass on Wash Castle, a collection of Glass’ photographic portraits of launderettes, published on their collaborative press, illetante books. All three share a deep interest in the relationship between place and people, in street photography, and in San Francisco.

Learn more about the show and register for the artist talk, presented in concert with the SF First Thursday Art Walk in the Tenderloin.