Historic Photos of San Francisco in the 50s, 60s, and 70s
The 1950s, 60s, and 70s were defining moments in our nation’s history, and San Francisco was at the forefront of the avant-garde artistic, intellectual, and cultural movements of the time. San Francisco gave rise to the most significant countercultural revolutions of the century, including the Beatniks of the 1950s, the hippies in the 1960s, and the gay rights movement in the 1970s.
This volume, Historic Photos of San Francisco in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, captures the revolutionary and tumultuous spirit of these historic times in stunning black-and-white photography. The book provides a retrospective view of ordinary citizens enjoying their daily lives in an extraordinary city, and illustrates the participants, protests, riots, triumphs, and tragedies of this extraordinary period in San Francisco and American history.
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Book details
- Author
- Rebecca Schall
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- pictorial history · black-and-white photography · counterculture movements · American cities · 1950s–1970s · Beat Generation · gay rights movement · hippie culture
- ISBN-13
- 9781684421244
About the author
REBECCA SCHALL is a history teacher and the author of Historic Photos of San Francisco and Historic Photos of the Presidio.
Schall holds a master’s degree in history and conducted historical research at the Sorbonne in Paris.
When she’s not writing, Schall draws on time spent living in the Latin Quarter of Paris as a flaneuse. That experience of immersive urban wandering informs her close engagement with place and history.
Rebecca lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.