The Presido, Portraits of a Changing Landscape
November 11, 2008 charityvargas
In her photography book Photographer Charity Vargas captures the evolution of San Francisco’s Presidio from military base to Nation Park. Excerpt from intro by Randolph Delehanty Ph. D. Ms.Vargas came to live in the Presidio three years ago during this momentary pause in its long life. She started exploring the complex old post looking carefully and lovingly at its gentle sleep and slow but steady revival as a national park with a new civilian community living and working here. She has an eye for what it essential about the Presidio .... Many of her images put the two together in a new way, as a filigree of evocative shadows cast on the “screens” of plain white walls. They almost seem like photographs of photographs with the building walls the film on which the fugitive shadows are cast. Photography -- literally writing with light -- here becomes writing with shadows with the unseen light source behind us.
In her photography book Photographer Charity Vargas captures the evolution of San Francisco’s Presidio from military base to Nation Park. Excerpt from intro by Randolph Deleha...
