Grapestake Gallery in San Francisco
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The Grapestake Gallery was founded in San Francisco in 1974 by Thomas V. Meyer and his sister Ursula Gropper. And was the first gallery in San Francisco that exhibited photographs concurrently with painting and sculpture in order to introduce and validate photographs as a fine art and collecting medium. The gallery opened with an Ansel Adams retrospective and later exhibited such artists as Harry Callahan, Joel Meyerowitz, Paul Strand, William Eggleston,Richard Misrach, Berenice Abbott and Jerry Uelsmann. Richard Misrach had his first one-man show here. Grapestake Gallery closed in 1984 but Thomas V. Meyer and Ursula Gropper continued to promote fine art photographs as independent dealers.
“The world was not terribly much aware of fine art photography until Adams was discovered. When Adams, because of his great personality, his flamboyance, his humor, his generous nature, came on the scene and had some help from some promotional people, people started paying attention. Initially, there was no photography market; nobody bought prints. When I opened my gallery, which was in 1974, we were selling a 16 inch print for $500.”
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- Photography of Anselm Adams, PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, January 11, 2002, Transcript
