SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Photo San Francisco 2006, the 7th Annual International San Francisco Photo-Based Art Exposition, is being held through July 23, 2006 at the historic Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center. Galleries and private dealers from across the United States and around the world will exhibit for sale the finest in photographic art ranging from the results of early 19th-Century photographic experiments to the most progressive photo-based art including video and digital art. Highlights of the exhibition will include works by world-renowned contemporary artists David Levinthal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Joel Peter-Witkin and Ken Ohara and vintage pieces by Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, Henri-Cartier-Bresson, Harry Callahan and Ansel Adams.

More than 60 premiere exhibitors representing an international array of artists will display photography at photo san francisco 2006. Participating exhibitors include San Francisco galleries Gendell Gallery, Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Scott Nichols Gallery, and San Francisco Camerawork.; Los Angeles galleries SCALO/GUYE (also of Zurich) and Stephen Cohen Gallery; Foley Gallery (New York), Czech Center of Photography (Prague), Galerie Hafenrichter Fluegel (Nurenberg), Joseph Bellows Gallery (La Jolla), Barry Singer Gallery (Petaluma), and Etherton Gallery (Tucson).

In addition to the booth displays organized by gallery, approximately ten areas throughout the Festival Pavilion will be set aside for a provocative mix of art installations, performance spaces and historical displays featuring video and mixed media work and making photo san Francisco 2006 an event not to be missed. BEAT, a visual history of the Beat poets, GAY DAY, a never-before-seen collection of photos from a decade of New York’s gay pride parade, The New Art Project, a curated video installation from Europe, and works from the Toronto-based 640 480 Video Collective, veterans of photo new york, are among the highly anticipated special installations to be featured during the exhibition.