Autobiography of San Francisco, whose full title is Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself, was edited by Chuck Mobley and published by SF Camerawork in 2010. It is a 64-page hardcover exhibition catalogue, limited to 2,000 copies and issued with a music CD, with more than 35 photographs by 31 Bay Area artists.

SF Camerawork is a non-profit art gallery in San Francisco, founded in 1974 as the Lamkin Camerawork Gallery and devoted to new ideas and directions in photography. It is based at Fort Mason Center and has also published Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts.

Jack Fritscher contributes two photographs, “Catacombs: Official Logo” and “Catacombs: Interior.” The collection also includes one photograph of Jack Fritscher by Robert Mapplethorpe, shown below.

Jack Fritscher, PhD, is an author, photographer, and former editor-in-chief of Drummer magazine, which he edited from 1977 to 1979. His books include the novel Some Dance to Remember and the memoir Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera.

More of Jack Fritscher’s photographs in books by others: Petite Mort, The Arena of Masculinity, and The Big Penis Book.

by Chuck Mobley, Editor
SF Camerawork ©2010

Two Photos by Jack Fritscher

“Catacombs: Official Logo”
“Catacombs: Interior”

Also included in this collection one photo by
Robert Mapplethorpe of “Jack Fritscher”