Tuesday, February 02, 2016
EXAMINER.COM -- “How Now Chinatown: Seven Photographers” featuring Benjamen Chinn, Charles Wong, Irene Poon, Andria Lo, Jason Henry, Vincent Trinh, Rebecca Goldschmidt and curated by Alice Wu opens February 12 at Legion boutique in San Francisco. Irene Poon (born 1941, San Francisco) is a photographer, art historian, curator and cultural activist, born and raised in San Francisco’s Chinatown where her father operated an herbal store on Grant Avenue. She studied with Don Worth at San Francisco State College, where she received her Master of Arts in photography in 1967. Poon has shown at San Francisco Museum of Art, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Smith Anderson North and more. Poon curated several exhibitions for the Chinese Historical Society of America. She published “Leading the Way: Asian American Artists of the Older Generation” (2001), a book of photographic portraits and biographical sketches.
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