A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos features a collection of striking photographs taken in San Francisco during the early 1970s, recently unearthed after being stored away for decades. The exhibit showcases everyday life moments, reflecting the era's social diversity and urban changes. Ramos's work seamlessly captures the intersections of race, class, and gender, while portraying a city at a crossroads of traditional society and emerging individual expression. This glimpse into the past invites viewers to reconsider historical narratives and the evolution of urban culture.
Ramos's photographs offer up stirring scenes from everyday life—a group of Hari Krishnas sing on Market Street, a window dresser changes a mannequin at the Union Square Macy's, two men lean in for a kiss at a peace rally in Golden Gate Park.
Ramos brilliantly captured a period of tumultuous urban change, when the last vestiges of conformist yet highly romantic 'polite society' were clashing with the colorful chaos of individual expression.
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