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Featuring stunning black-and-white photographs chronicling the original San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge construction in the 1930s by American photographer Peter Stackpole, the exhibition Peter Stackpole: Bridging the Bay continues OMCA's ongoing series exploring contemporary topics in California through photography.

On view in the Gallery of California Art during the opening of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in September of 2013, the exhibition of approximately 20 works from OMCA's collection connects visitors back in time to the bridge's first iteration and serves as a complement to the Museum's major exhibition on the San Francisco Bay, opening in concert with the new bridge and America's Cup.

The son of California sculptor Ralph Stackpole, Peter Stackpole was educated in the San Francisco Bay area and Paris, where he grew up under the influence of his parents' friends and peers such as Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, and Diego Rivera. His appreciation for the hand-held camera and his technical expertise found a perfect subject chronicling the construction of both the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. An honorary member in the Bay Area's Group f/64*, Stackpole's work appeared in Time, Fortune, US Camera, Vanity Fair, and LIFE magazine, where he was an original staff photographer.

A graduate of Oakland Technical High School, Peter Stackpole was barely into his 20s when he took a handheld Leica 35 mm camera to the waterfront to check out the construction of a spectacular new bridge connecting the city to Oakland to San Francisco. A bridge worker invited him to tag along, sparking a series of death-defying trips along the tops of catwalks and under larger-than-life steel structures that would produce some of the most memorable photography of its day.

OMCA's approach to viewing art in their galleries:  A Nimble Way to Experience Art
View art your way: Move a chair in front of your favorite artwork and sit as long as you like.
Expect the unexpected: With four regularly changing exhibition spaces, the Gallery offers dynamic experiences that evolve with your input.
Get engaged: Touch materials, write in journals, and draw your self-portrait.

*Group f/64: From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: On November 15, 1932, at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, eleven photographers announced themselves as Group f/64: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, John Paul Edwards, Preston Holder, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston. The idea for the show had arisen a couple of months before at a party in honor of Weston held at a gallery known as "683" (for its address on Brockhurst Street in San Francisco) — the West Coast equivalent of Alfred Stieglitz's gallery 291 — where they had discussed forming a group devoted to exhibiting and promoting a new direction in photography that broke with the Pictorialism then prevalent in West Coast art photography.

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