Italians of the Bay Area: The Photographs of Gino Sbrana

by Carlos Bowden Jr.

Book Overview

These images are part of the life work of Italian immigrant Gino Sbrana, who started his American life in San Francisco as a vegetable peddler. By 1911, he had launched a large photographic studio, Pisa Foto, at Columbus and Broadway in San Francisco. Later Gino founded a studio in Oakland and, in 1919, settled in San Jose. Not content to confine his artistry to the formally posed studio portrait, he traveled over the Bay Area countryside with his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073854664X
• ISBN13: 9780738546643
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"