Join PhotoAlliance and Haines Gallery for the Winter 2024 event with renowned San Francisco Bay Area photographer Chris McCaw. “Chris McCaw: Marking Time Artist Talk & Book Launch” happens in the Bayfront Theatre, Building B, at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC). This lecture and book launch takes place in conjunction with FOG Design+Art, happening concurrently at FMCAC.

PhotoAlliance and Haines Gallery are excited to co-host an artist talk and book launch for Chris McCaw’s new monograph Marking Time, reflecting work the artist has made with solarized paper negatives in the last 10 years. Joining McCaw for an onstage conversation following his slideshow is Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media Maggie Dethloff.

Chris McCaw’s artistic practice is firmly rooted in the history of photography while pushing the medium in new directions. In McCaw’s iconic “Sunburn” series, the lenses in the artist’s handmade cameras function as magnifying glasses, allowing the sun to literally burn its path across the light-sensitive negatives that are often solarized in the process.

McCaw’s work is in numerous collections; including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the J Paul Getty Museum. Published by Datz Press in South Korea, this is a special chance to secure a copy of Marking Time without shipping from Korea.

After a year and a half of wonderful programs in partnership around the San Francisco Bay Area, PhotoAlliance looks forward to welcoming all to the historic Bayfront Theatre, where they plan to offer Winter & Spring 2024 programs as well.

* Students are always welcome to attend PhotoAlliance lectures for free, please tell our check-in volunteer you are a student and show your school ID. There is no need for students to pre-register for a ticket in advance.

Free Admission