Art Film Friday Series From O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Screens Doc on Photographer Pirkle Jones – Oct. 18

From California landscapes to the politics of the Black Panther Party, Pirkle Jones’s seven decades of involvement in photography have helped define the San Francisco Bay Area’s dual photographic traditions of elegant landscape imagery and biting social documentation.

Jones was a friend and colleague of Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lang and also took part in numerous collaborations with his wife Ruth-Marion Baruch over the course of their 49-year marriage. They lived in Mill Valley on Lovell for many years and were friends of Dick and Ann O’Hanlon, the founders of the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts.

The arts hub Is hosting, as part of Its ongoing Art Film Friday series, is hosting a screening of the documentary “Pirkle Jones: Seven Decades Photographed: From Pictorial California to the Politics of the Black Panther Party” on Friday Oct 18, 7pm. The documentary runs 80 minutes.
A post-screening Q & A with filmmaker Jane Levy Reed follows the screening. Jones was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he taught until 1994.

​The 411: O’Hanlon Center for the Arts‘ Art Film Friday series screens the documentary “Pirkle Jones: Seven Decades Photographed: From Pictorial California to the Politics of the Black Panther Party” on Friday Oct 18, 7pm. Film is 80 minutes. 616 Throckmorton Ave. Tix $10. MORE INFO.

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