The Mission

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A vibrant neighborhood in transition

Dick Evans captures the heartbeat of life within the Mission District, the San Francisco neighborhood known for its work of art and Latin American culture—and more recently for its rapid gentrification. Intimate, colorful images depict a spot stuffed with diverse residents, stately Victorian houses, hand-painted store signs, Carnaval dancers, Día de los Muertos celebrants, political activists, and its namesake, Mission Dolores (here juxtaposed against portraits of Native people and indigenous cultural objects). Poetry and quotations from Mission residents are interspersed during, deepening viewers’ immersion into this community. But on the heart of the book is the Mission’s famous public art: works that depict Latin American culture, resistance to political oppression, passion for environmental justice, and outrage at gentrification. Evans’s photos highlight the growing threat to the neighborhood’s character, but additionally they reveal the various changes that experience shaped the neighborhood into its vivacious present-day identity.


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