Dual Views: San Francisco Labor Landmarks Photography by Wendy Crittenden &Tom Griscom In collaboration with Kim Munson, curator and the Labor Archives & Research Center at SFSU. All images and copy © 2007 & 2008 Wendy Crittenden, Tom Griscom & Kim Munson. All rights reserved.

Project Description San Francisco’s labor movement is marked by a history of blood and strife, with many buildings and street locations playing a central role in that struggle. In Dual Views: San Francisco Labor Landmarks, photographers Tom Griscom and Wendy Crittenden have created intriguing contemporary views of those sites in their dissimilar yet complimentary styles. The exhibition, curated by Kim Munson, contrasts Griscom’s classic black and white panoramas and Crittenden’s skewed contemporary color c-prints, showing diverging points of view of the same locations, which call to mind past and present, time and space, the ethereal and the architectural. These views allow us to revisit the significance these sites have in the City’s vitally important labor history, and at the same time enhance our appreciation for the sublime, and often dark, beauty of these historical locations.

Site of former Giant Powder dynamite factory, Glen Park Wendy’s prints are C-prints on Aluminum, 30” x 30.”

Site of former Giant Powder dynamite factory, Glen Park Tom’s panorama’s are printed on crème Cranes paper. They vary somewhat, but average 12"h x 40"w.

Site of former Giant Powder dynamite factory, Glen Park

Site of former Giant Powder dynamite factory, Glen Park

Klockars Blacksmith Shop

Klockars Blacksmith Shop

Red’s Java House

Red’s Java House

Sailors’ Union of the Pacific

Sailors’ Union of the Pacific

Sailors’ Union of the Pacific

Sailors’ Union of the Pacific

Copra Crane

Copra Crane

Copra Crane

Copra Crane

Ironworks Factory

Ironworks Factory

About Us Artist Biography - Wendy Anne Crittenden Wendy Anne Crittenden is a local emerging artist working on her second year of San Francisco State University's Master of Fine Art program. Wendy works primarily in color photography, but is also well versed in drawing and printmaking. In 2002 she received her BFA in photography at Sonoma State University located I n Northern California. Her work has been exhibited around the Bay Area as well as in Southern California, including her most recent show titled Out-of-Sorts at San Francisco’s In Color II. She currently resides in downtown San Francisco and works as the studio assistant to local artist Stephen Galloway. Her recent photography deals with ideas of imagination and space; targeting spaces of transition and disrepair while deeply coded with social behavior and dysfunction. By eliminating human presence and expected visual elements she is able to create striking formal compositions and point-of-view shots in a manner that leaves one with a feeling of instability and uncertainty.

About Us Artist Biography – Tom Griscom Tom Griscom was born in Chattanooga, TN. He earned his BFA with honors in Photography in 1999 from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Currently he is completing his MFA at San Francisco State University. His work, shot in urban rural areas, documents the passage of time while simultaneously diminishing a sense of time and place. On the surface, his images are quite beautiful. They are simple and accessible, evoking, perhaps, the tranquility that one might feel in a seascape covered in fog. They are meant to function evocatively, like music, and are to be viewed subjectively, symbolized by the absence of markers of a time and place. His black and white work has been published in Photographers Forum and recently exhibited in SF at the SPE West convention, Artists Space and Visual Aid in NY, and the Sanlun Yishu mobile art project in Beijing. In addition he has worked as a graphic designer for 9 years. He currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

About Us Curator Biography - Kim Munson Kim’s lifetime of experience working in creative-technical art related fields has evolved into a passionate interest in curating, researching & coordinating art exhibits for museums, galleries, and institutions. Over the course of her career, she has worked in graphic design, digital media, fine art, scenery painting for film, event coordination and screen-print production. Most recently she collaborated on the Syndicate project (public art, walking tour and gallery installation) for Bay Area Now 5, YBCA). Other curatorial projects include Exploding Cartography: Art about Maps and War (SFSU); Battle Emblems (Intersection for the Arts); Gate (Intersection for the Arts). Kim has also worked as a coordinator or researcher on the following SFSU exhibitions and events: Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art ; Eco: Art about the Environment ; High 5 ; To Cuba with Love and AfroCuba: Works on Paper 1968-2003 . As a fine artist, Kim’s work has recently been displayed in Intersection’s show Terror? and in College Night shows at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor.

About Us Catherine Powell, Director, SFSU Labor Archives and Research Center Few regions can rival the rich, lively labor history of the San Francisco Bay Area. This history is preserved in primary source and vintage history materials at the Labor Archives and Research Center (LARC). Founded in 1985 by trade union leaders, historians, labor activists and university administrators, the Labor Archives is a unit of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University.