The woods at Buena Vista Park: Visual & observational studies begun in 1979 of a public park in San Francisco with diverse social uses, heritage woodlands, native biodiversity, public sex, queer sites, and public debates around gentrification, security, and redesign + | + || + | + ||| + || + || + || + || + | + email: studio['at' symbol]gordonbrentingram.ca | + || + |

Category Archives: pathways & circulation

Buenas vistas: San Francisco, public parks, public sex and photography at the end of the 1970s

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 20 October 2012

Buenas vistas: San Francisco, public parks, public sex and photography at the end of the 1970s This essay is coming soon.

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Pathways to the summit of Buena Vista Park

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 28 March 1979

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Man with a large pair of sunglasses

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 25 March 1979

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A site of public sex and related erosion in the underlying, only partially stabilized sand dunes of San Francisco

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 23 March 1979

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Pathway through vestigial live oak, Quercus agrifolia, woodland

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 23 March 1979

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Remaining native Coastal live oak, Quercus agrifolia, woodland with ivy and other invasive species

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 22 March 1979

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Film programme, ‘The Golden Age of MGM’, of the Castro Theater below Buena Vista Park

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 22 March 1979

Image of Judy Garland less than a decade after she passed away a week before the Stonewall Riots.

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A German refugee

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 21 March 1979

I was photographing in this clearing one afternoon in the third week of March in 1979 and a woman who looked between 60 and 70 years came over to talk. She was with a young, Punk-looking man who smoked a … Continue reading →

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Sunbathers

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 16 March 1979

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Planted Monterey pine, Pinus contorta, forest

by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram Posted on 13 March 1979