Legendary rock 'n' roll photographer Jim Marshall is to have a street named after him in San Francisco, close to his apartment where musicians would frequently mingle. [Read More]
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Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who captured the iconic war image Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, has had a block in downtown San Francisco named after him. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-12-13 17:06
In 1998, San Francisco installed the latest cutting-edge technology to run the train network: floppy disks. A quarter of a century later and the city's transportation agency is still using the same system. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-04-09 17:45
San Francisco will be posting more police in the Marina district in response to the high-profile armed robbery of a photographer at the Palace of Fine Arts last week. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-11-23 20:33
Thanks to new legislation, the San Francisco Police Department can now, without a warrant, gain access to live video feeds from privately owned security cameras in the city under certain circumstances. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-27 20:38
What do you get when you combine apocalyptic, real-life drone footage of the red skies over San Francisco with the score from the movie Blade Runner: 2049? You get a viral sensation that somehow perfectly encompasses the current feeling on the west coast of the United States. The video above was posted by San Francisco […] petapixel.com »
2020-09-11 17:35
Filmmaker Dan Denegre of Space Race Studio recently shot a short, poignant bit of footage documenting the eerie stillness of San Francisco’s once-bustling streets amid the coronavirus pandemic. petapixel.com »
2020-03-26 20:37
My name is James D. Lee, and I’m a photographer based in Oakland. I recently got around to posting four years worth of selected photos shot in and around the San Francisco Bay area strictly on tilt-shift lenses. petapixel.com »
2017-12-09 21:19
Photographer Burton Rast has just completed a new project titled, The Shapes of San Francisco. He spent 100 days exploring SF and shooting one photo per day of the city’s most popular and photographed sights, but “in a unique way. petapixel.com »
2017-07-12 18:39
My father like other New Mexico natives is very superstitious. Whenever the family was going on a road trip to Grandma’s house, my father would always tell us supernatural stories while we drove through the vast desert landscape. boredpanda.com »
2017-05-06 04:09
Photographer Bill Lemke began capturing the Grateful Dead community on a large format camera in the 1980s when he documented 150 'Deadheads' -- as the fan base is known.
In 2005, Sony Bravia filmed a striking ad for its televisions featuring a quarter of a million colorful bouncy balls hopping down the steep streets of San Francisco. [Read More]
A San Francisco startup has plastered the city with controversial billboards urging companies to replace people with "AI employees." [Read More]
Police officers have been quietly finding ways to keep using facial recognition in U.S. cities that have banned the controversial technology, according to a recent report. [Read More]
David Johnson, a celebrated photographer who was the first Black student of Ansel Adams, has died at the age of 97.
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A Czech camera crew fell victim to the San Francisco crime wave as they were robbed outside a bookstore in broad daylight on Sunday evening. [Read More]