Mitchell Durkee: displaying the merchandise
I was shopping at F. Dorian on Hayes Street, the best gift store in all of San Francisco, and I saw this salesperson who had put a feather necklace on his head.
Nancy & Dave DeRoche: retro Gothic
“I went over to a garage sale in the Oakland Hills. They were selling the torchere lamp. I asked them to pose with it and they were willing.”
Sandra Church: dinner with a Broadway star
“I met her by chance at a friend of a friend’s dinner. I liked how her hair, mask and shirt went together.” The former actress and singer played a leading role in the original Broadway production of “Gypsy” – opposite Ethel Merman. She also played Marlon Brando’s wife in the 1963 film version of “The ...
Lorraine Tuschen: a chance meeting of reds, whites and blues
“She’s a friend who goes by ‘Peach.’ I went out to visit her in Alameda and we went for a walk. She was wearing all white and she had red and blue in her mask and her hair is all white. I saw this flag hanging really low and it all came together.”
Ann Hedges: a surprise at lunch
It was Ann Hedges birthday and I was taking her to lunch. She surprised me with this outfit coordinated around her mask. She’s so inventive in what she puts together.
Maker of hand-printed books faces an unraveling, then begins to read the hidden thread in her own story
Like so many young people, Leigh McLellan had not clearly fixed on a career when she entered college. A course in graduate school piqued her passion for creating hand-printed books. It was a career she pursued for 15 years – before suddenly giving it up. McLellan, like many young people, had more to discover about ...
