1987 - 1988

HEADLANDS

THE MARIN COAST AT THE GOLDEN GATE

In 1987 I was invited by the Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) to be part of a collaborative effort to create an artists’ guidebook for the Marin Headlands. The Headlands is a former military defense installation just north of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. It had been decommissioned by the military and turned over to the National Park Service. The areas was opened to the public and the Headlands Center for the Arts was one of the park partners.

I joined artists Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, designer Miles DeCoster, and writer Paul Metcalf in a book project that was eventually published in 1989 by the University of New Mexico Press titled Headlands, the Marin Coast at the Golden Gate. The book chronicled the history of the Headlands through text and photographs, and told the stories of the human and military occupation that created the landscape with artifacts now open to the public as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation area.

My part of the collaboration was to make contemporary photographs of the Headlands in reference to the historical images curated by Mandel and Sultan, and the research conducted by Metcalf. DeCoster designed the resulting publication. The fieldwork took place between 1987 and 1988.

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