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August 24, 2015

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Hello again! Daniel here on day two of my takeove

Hello again! Daniel here on day two of my takeover.

I found this medium in my early thirties and in the beginning I didn’t fully understand the root of the obsession that had seized my life. I’ve come to learn that this obsession to make pictures revolves around my relationship with time. Specifically — the desire to pause.

The camera can pause time unlike any other instrument. I attempt to amplify the pause through the form of a print. The photographic pause has the potential to crack open the micro-moment, in that one time and one place, and invite us to contemplate the macro.

What can one San Francisco street corner, in one micro-moment, reveal about the plight of the city? And what can that same photographic moment forever fail to reveal? This paradox is the space of picture-making that I continue to reside in.

Here are some photographs from ‘Boomtown’ on view now in the current exhibition, “Looking Forward”.

1.) San Francisco, Natoma Street, 2018

2.) San Francisco, Geary Street, 2014

3.) San Francisco, 24th Street, 2018

4.) San Francisco, Austin Street, 2018

5.) San Francisco, Bryant Street, 2017

Hello Everyone! My name is Daniel Postaer and it’s an honor to take over the Pier’s IG feed. Admittedly I’m a bit insta-shy! . . though I will push through that to share some of my picture-making process and thoughts with you here.

I first visited Pier 24 in 2012 with my History of Photography class as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. The show was “About Face”. There was no wall text. No name plates next to each piece. Just the pictures. And installed in a way that felt like classic jazz. It was a transformative picture-viewing experience. I would return often to the Pier during grad school, as a viewer, and get lost and inspired through the winding rooms.

It has been a dream to share my photographs of San Francisco on these Pier walls — in this extended moment.

My love for San Francisco runs deep. It’s where I fell hard for the medium of photography and I can’t wait to share more this coming week.

1.) San Francisco window in 2014

2.) San Francisco, Jessie Street East, 2019

We are very excited to announce our next Instagram

We are very excited to announce our next Instagram takeover... Daniel Postaer (@dpostaer)! We are often asked if Daniel's work are ~really~ photographs or are they paintings? We cannot wait to see what Daniel has to share! Daniel's photographs are on view in our current exhibition, "Looking Forward: 10 Years of Pier 24 Photography."

Thank you to Pier 24 Photography for supporting my

Thank you to Pier 24 Photography for supporting my work. I am also truly grateful to you for all your generosity over the years to the city of San Francisco. There are gems in this city in plain sight. Pier 24 is one of them. Crown Point Press is one of them.

I am always looking to expand my understanding of this place and learn new things. Lately, the past few years, I have been getting up before dawn and boarding fishing boats. Actually just one boat other than my own. The Lovely Martha.

The Lovely Martha captained by Mike Rescino is a classic 50’ wooden-hulled boat located out of San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf. Four generations of the Rescino Family have taken experienced and novice anglers out on the San Francisco waters for over 100 years. I think of the Lovely Martha as an institution. Every time I go I learn from the crew and also other fishermen aboard. So, I prefer to go alone.

The Lovely Martha is old school San Francisco. Highly regarded by SF Natives. It’s really fun to fish with them and the time spent on the water seems to stick with me long after I am back on land.

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