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David Johnson Poster-smThe Mariposa County Arts Council is pleased to bring “Framing the Street,” a special exhibition of documentary photography by David Johnson, to the Treetop Gallery running from November 8, 2014 through April 3, 2015.

The public is invited to opening reception for the exhibition on Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

David Johnson, a native of Jacksonville, Florida was the first African American student of Ansel Adams at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) in 1946.  Is addition to Adams, Johnson studied under such photographic greats as Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Bernhard, and Edward Weston during the heralded golden age of photography on the West Coast. While at the California School of Fine Arts, Mr. Johnson was advised to document the people and places he knew well. As a result, he became an important chronicaler of black life in San Francisco during the middle part of the 20th century, turning his lens on the city’s jazz scene, the Civil Rights Movement, and streetwork focused specifically on San Francisco’s Fillmore District. Nat King Cole, Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, W.E.B. Dubois and Thurgood Marshall were among the many luminaries Johnson photographed.

Now in his 80s, Mr. Johnson considers himself a griot, or storyteller, who in West African culture is charged with communicating a tribe’s history. “By documenting past eras, I am giving people a glimpse of what life was like, maybe for some reawakening painful and proud memories. My work teaches through visual images. They reflect what I have experienced and continue to observe and become legacy for present and future generations.”

“it is exciting to bring this story to Mariposa. Art is at its best when it’s both aesthetically and intellectually compelling, as Mr. Johnson’s work is. This is art that captures the spirit of a specific place at a distinct moment in time and serves as a rich historical record,” shared Arts Council’s Executive Directory, Cara Goger.

The Arts Council is an incorporated not-for-profit organization, created to promote and support all forms of the cultural arts, for all ages, throughout Mariposa County and is supported in part by the County of Mariposa, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the California Arts Council, a state agency.