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
