Berkeleysider Christina Diaz took these beautiful photographs of the Berkeley Marina at sunset on Saturday December 11. See the full set at Christina Diaz blog.
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Richard Nagler: Waiting for the decisive moment
“Special”, Oakland, November 1980. “Special”, Oakland, November 1980. Richard Nagler was a painter until he decided to be a photographer. “Paintings are about the painter,” he told a rapt audience at UC Berkeley’s Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism on the evening of November 30th. “Photography is about ‘the other’, about what […]
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City images: Berkeley Photo Walk deemed a success
Photographer being photographed on Photo Walk. Photo: bobcrazybear Around a dozen keen photographers gathered on Saturday morning outside Amanda’s restaurant on Shattuck for the first Berkeleyside-inspired Berkeley Photo Walk. Orchestrated by enthusiastic snapper Ira Serkes, the group included other names familiar to Berkeleyside readers who appreciate the images we cull from our Flickr pool. Among […]
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The beauty of Berkeley’s fossils
I am not usually the kind of person who buys a calendar to hang on my wall, but I may have to make an exception this year. Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology has produced a 2011 calendar with absolutely stunning photos. The pictures are of fossils dating back thousands of years. The calendar was created as […]
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Join the first Berkeley photowalk
How many of us, as we walk around our city, really keep our eyes open? From the responses to our Wednesday morning Where in Berkeley? quiz, it’s clear there are a few eagle-eyed Berkeleyans out there. Wouldn’t it be nice, however, to ally an observer’s eye with a better sense of photography? Well, here’s your […]
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Capturing Berkeleyside photographer Keoki Seu
"I'm starting with the man in the mirror" by Keoki Seu Readers often admire the photography on Berkeleyside and ask us who takes the images. Chances are they are probably referring to the work of Keoki Seu, whose photographs often accompany our daily news Wire, frequently pop up in our weekly “Where in Berkeley?” slot […]
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Defending rivers and the people who depend on them
Khoteswa, Narmada River, India 1999 by Karen Robinson. Water is the subject of a panel discussion this evening at the David Brower Center to kick off Water, Rivers and People/Agua, Ríos y Pueblos, a photography exhibition in the center’s Hazel Wolf Gallery. The exhibition, an international collaboration, is an homage to those who fight to defend […]
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40th anniversary of Berkeley’s Kent State protest
Protestors at UC Berkeley, May 5, 1970, Courtesy of Bancroft Library Today is the 40th anniversary of Kent State, where four students were shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen. The students were shot during a protest against President Richard Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia, which he had announced on television a few days earlier. The […]
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Berkeley and the 1906 earthquake
Sunday is the 104th anniversary of the massive 1906 San Francisco earthquake and SFGate.com is honoring the occasion by running 39 pictures from Berkeley author Richard Schwartz’s book on the subject. Earthquake Exodus 1906, Berkeley Responds to the San Francisco Refugees discusses – in words and pictures – how numerous San Francisco residents came to […]
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Opening: Marc Riboud photography
This Friday, March 12th, sees the official opening of the “Marc Riboud Photographs” exhibition at the Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography at UC Berkeley. Marc Riboud is considered one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. He joined the Magnum photo agency in Paris in the early 1950s and traveled extensively, working with […]
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A L@te start to the weekend
If the aim of Berkeley Art Museum’s L@te Friday night events is to generate some buzz, the museum has succeeded. Last night’s event had the energy of a good cocktail party, which seemed to be picking up steam at 8:30. (I bet they had to shoo people out at the 9 p.m. closing — I […]
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Capturing forgotten faces: the $2 portraits project
Justin Beck shot the above portrait on Shattuck Avenue. He paid the man, whose name he couldn’t identify, $2.00 and chatted to him for a while. The portrait was taken as part of an initiative Beck is participating in called the $2 Portraits Project which was launched by San Francisco photographer Thomas Hawk on June 12 2008. […]
