san francisco bay book

Senator Dianne Feinstein

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 22:42:00 -0800

"This impressive collaboration between an environmental historian and a nature photographer is a celebration of the San Francisco Bay's natural beauty and environmental value. As a life-long San Franciscan who has a deep admiration for the Bay, I believe residents and visitors alike will enjoy this wonderful introduction to the Bay and will be moved to cherish and protect this California treasure."

– Senator Dianne Feinstein

Leon Panetta

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:52:54 -0800

"For those of us born and raised along the California coast, this book confirms again, through the beauty of its photographs, the great natural treasure we have here in San Francisco Bay.”

—Leon E. Panetta, Director of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy

Sunset magazine

Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:47:54 -0800

"This book is a feast for the eyes and an inspiring call to get to know our Bay better--so that we can better preserve its riches."

– Melvin Lane, former owner of Lane Publishing Company,
publishers of Sunset Magazine and Sunset Books

"The bay is brought beautifully to life through Sanger’s eye for the spectacular vista and the unusual angle, as well as his passionate understanding of the details that make up the whole.”

– George Olson, Director of Photography, Sunset magazine

Save the Bay

Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:46:45 -0800

"This book, with its comprehensive view of San Francisco Bay, is very timely. It will benefit both newcomers and long time Bay Area residents who appreciate the Bay and who will continue with their constant vigilance the process of saving the Bay."

– Sylvia McLaughlin, co-founder of Save the Bay

downloads

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:10:20 -0800

The following images from San Francisco Bay – Portrait of an Estuary are available to qualified press for download and use only in approved publications for the sole purpose of promoting or reviewing the book.

For a password and instructions to be able to download the images please contact the office at 510-526-0800

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intro

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:44:50 -0800

David Sanger and John Hart's new book San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary was released in October 2003.

A portrait of San Francisco Bay, the largest estuary system on the west coast of the Americas, this large-format photography book showcases a fragile yet essential centerpiece of life in the Bay Area.

Sponsored by the National Audubon Society and The Bay Institute,San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary is published by the University of California Press and designed by award-winning designer Jennifer Barry

The Bay Institute

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:39:36 -0800

The Bay Institute of San Francisco was the primary sponsor and fundraiser for San Francisco Bay – Portrait of an Estuary

The Bay Institute was founded in 1981 by pioneers of a new advocacy approach which viewed the entire Bay-Delta ecosystem as a single, interdependent watershed. They claimed that environmental reform benefiting the Bay must recognize the importance of events in the farthest reaches of the watershed just as urgently as those along the Bay shoreline, and that reduced freshwater flow was the biggest factor in the decline of the estuary's fish and wildlife resources. [from bay.org

Prints

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:30:13 -0800

Photographic fine art prints from the book and the accompanying Oakland Museum exhibit can be ordered online from davidsanger.com

Saint Gregory Nyssa Exhibit

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:28:11 -0800

Photographs from the book San Franciso Bay – Portrait of an Estuary and the accompanying show at the Oakland Museum will be exhibited at Saint Gregory of Nyssa art space from September 10th to October 29th.

There will be an opening reception on Sunday September 11th from 1pm to 4pm. All are invited. Mark your calendars.

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Signed Copies

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:11:21 -0800

San Francisco Bay - Portrait of an Estuary

text by John Hart, photography by David Sanger

206 pages, 11-1/4 x 9 inches, 158 color photographs, 6 color maps

ISBN: 0520233999

Copies signed by John Hart and David Sanger are available for $35 each, tax included, plus shipping.

John Hart

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:04:39 -0800

John Hart is the author of several books, including Storm over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future (California, 1996) and Farming on the Edge: Saving Family Farms in Marin County, California (California, 1992), both of which won the Commonwealth Club Silver Medal. He is also a prize-winning poet whose book The Climbers is part of the Pitt Poetry Series.

John also works as an editorial consultant on public involvement documents and reports in the planning and environmental fields.

website www.johnhart.com

David Sanger

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:46 -0800

David Sanger is an outdoors and travel photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a regular contributor to Sunset, Via, Caribbean Travel and Life, Endless Vacation and numerous other magazines as well as to Insight and Fodor’s Guides. Among his corporate clients are the National Park Service, Bank of America, and tourist boards in the Caribbean and the South Pacific. He was selected by the Golden Gate National Park Association to document the recent Crissy Field restoration.

website www.davidsanger.com

Acknowledgments

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:54:05 -0800

This book could not have been possible without the gracious sponsorship and support of the following organizations:

National Audubon Society
The Bay Institute of San Francisco
The Resources Legacy Fund on behalf of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
Director's Circle of the University of California Press Associates
The Mary A. Crocker Trust
The Fred Gellert Family Foundation
Alexander and Baldwin Inc.
Meadowsweet Dairy
Adobe Inc. All photographs processed with Adobe Photoshop®
Photoflex
Anonymous
Professor Harrison C. Dunning
Jack Beggs
Bill Booth

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:24:29 -0800

San Francisco Bay is that special thing called an estuary, a place where the sea enters the land and rivers enter the sea, where freshwater mixes with saltwater, where deep and shallow waters, mud flats and marshes nourish fish, shellfish, harbor seals and millions of migratory shorebirds and waterfowl.

Thirty years ago the bay was in decline, its shorelines polluted and inaccessible, its area shrinking as garbage dumps and landfills encroached on its waters.But since the 1960s, citizen groups and government agencies have been fighting back, with success....

Read all of "San Francisco offers un-urban attractions" in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sep 13, 2003

San Francisco Chronicle

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:16:10 -0800

In 1960, San Francisco Bay was a polluted cesspool. The bay's cities and counties had a solution: Why not fill it in, and sell off bay-fill lots? Why did Sausalito need polluted Richardson Bay and its mudflats? Why not "Richardson Bay Estates," built on garbage landfill? A courageous group of women stopped these plans in their tracks. And then they decided to restore the entire bay ecosystem; in other words, fix the huge San Francisco estuary that includes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, an area reaching from San Francisco Bay proper to 90 miles into the heart of the Central Valley.

Forty years later, John Hart, writer, and David Sanger, photographer, in "San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary," ask how well the project is going....."

Healing the Bay –– Writer and photographer assess the progress of restoration of the San Francisco Estuary by John Jay Osborn Jr.

Read the whole review in San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 12, 2003