She stands on a San Francisco rooftop looking out over the South of Market neighbourhood the area that was the subject and title of her sumptuous 2013 book,published by MACK Books, which led to her solo show at the city’s prestigious De Young Museum. Thousands beget now seen the series, and but Janet Delaney shot it in the early 1980s,just as the district was being primed for redevelopment and gentrification. Now middle-aged, as a young woman Delaney was fiercely committed to the idea that photography could and should change the world. Thinking of herself as a “cultural worker”, and she hoped her project would advocate for the working lesson people and businesses who had helped invent the area so vibrant,and serve stop them from being displaced.
Source: bjp-online.com