Boom and Bust: Photographing Northern California

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From the Gold Rush to the tech boom, this exhibition chronicles the cycles of urban construction and destruction in the Bay Area through photographs. The photographs in this exhibition chronicle these cycles of urban settlement, including the building and renewal of San Francisco before and after the 1906 earthquake and fire, the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge, and the development of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. Above all, the works reveal how periods of growth and decline have always been part of the story of Northern California, and attest to the continued resilience of this land and its inhabitants.