David Johnson’s 1946 photograph “Looking South on Fillmore' shows the bustling intersection at Post Street. It's a picture of a neighborhood that no longer exists, a neighborhood packed with Black-owned businesses, bars and jazz clubs.
David Johnson’s 1946 photograph “Looking South on Fillmore,” which shows the bustling intersection at Post Street, is a picture of a neighborhood that no longer exists. During the mid-20th century, San Francisco’s Fillmore District was known colloquially as the “Harlem of the West,” packed with Black-owned businesses, bars and jazz clubs. A city redevelopment project in the 1970s leveled the neighborhood, displacing nearly 20,000 residents.
Those photographs, and others, are the subject of the exhibition “David Johnson: In the Zone ,” on view in the North Light Court at San Francisco City Hall. Organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission, the show features 65 lush black-and-white prints on loan from UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library where the artist’s archive is housed. Narrative text by Johnson accompany many of the photographs, adding a personal depth to the pictures.
Expertly eyed shots like “Dancing at a Joint,” 1950, which catches a couple cutting a rug, and “Bass Player at Primalon Ballroom,” 1952, express the frenetic energy of the nightlife. Street scenes like “Rhythm Records,” 1947, showing a group of men gathered outside the music shop, and interior shots like the one of Johnson’s barbershop, capture the social landscape of the neighborhood by day.
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