Bullwinkle
J. Moose
Dear RFF members,
I’m an infrequent member here, but I’d like to announce a website that I think the members would be interested in. My uncle was the photographer Benjamen Chinn and my family and I have launched a website honoring his life and photography.
Ben was a lifelong photographer who most notably photographed San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1940’s and Paris in the 1950’s. He was a student of Ansel Adams and Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute. Some of his other instructors included Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Lisette Model and Dorothea Lange, and a number of these artists became lifelong friends.
Ben stopped pursuing photography as a fine art early on, but he went on to have a long career as the head of the Sixth Army photo lab in the Presidio of San Francisco.
The website is at www.benjamenchinn.com. We’ve put up a gallery of some of his photos from San Francisco’s Chinatown and Paris. It’s an evolving gallery because we are still in the process of scanning all of his prints and negatives. Needless to say, it’s been very exciting to discover these wonderful images.
Please enjoy!
Best regards,
Adam
I’m an infrequent member here, but I’d like to announce a website that I think the members would be interested in. My uncle was the photographer Benjamen Chinn and my family and I have launched a website honoring his life and photography.
Ben was a lifelong photographer who most notably photographed San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1940’s and Paris in the 1950’s. He was a student of Ansel Adams and Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute. Some of his other instructors included Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Lisette Model and Dorothea Lange, and a number of these artists became lifelong friends.
Ben stopped pursuing photography as a fine art early on, but he went on to have a long career as the head of the Sixth Army photo lab in the Presidio of San Francisco.
The website is at www.benjamenchinn.com. We’ve put up a gallery of some of his photos from San Francisco’s Chinatown and Paris. It’s an evolving gallery because we are still in the process of scanning all of his prints and negatives. Needless to say, it’s been very exciting to discover these wonderful images.
Please enjoy!
Best regards,
Adam
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Pablito
coco frío
Terrific! Thanks for posting.
Threads like this are the best thing about RFF as far as I'm concerned.
Threads like this are the best thing about RFF as far as I'm concerned.
monochrome_joy
Analog Enlightenment
Love it - Thank you for sharing this time capsule. This is what I think about when I take photos, that someday my children will look through my negatives and computer files and see a recorded history.
hans voralberg
Veteran
Thanks for your family effort, such a legacy 
Haigh
Gary Haigh
Your uncle's photos are wonderful. Thank you for putting the website on RF forum.
Gary
OZ
Gary
OZ
agi
Well-known
Awesome Adam. Didn't know you were on here as well.
Bullwinkle
J. Moose
agi -- Yeah, I've been a member for a while, but don't post that often. But I do enjoy this group and I've learned a lot from everyone's posts.
Thanks for all of your kind words!
Thanks for all of your kind words!
reiki_
Well-known
really nice. some great moments there.
zuikologist
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Great stuff, thanks for sharing.
leica M2 fan
Veteran
Wonderful examples of his life's work, thanks.