Ira Nowinski, MFA 1973

Photographer Ira Nowinski has been a fixture on San Francisco's artistic and cultural scene for over three decades. He earned a Master of Fine Art's degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973. Nowinski subsequently embarked on projects that reflected a passion for social justice and that captured the social and cultural ambience of the Beat Generation in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Opera, for which he served as the official photographer, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Published and exhibited work includes:

No Vacancy: Urban Renewal and the Elderly
Cafe Society: Beat Poets in San Francisco
Backstage at the Opera, an examination of the San Francisco Opera
A Season at Glyndebourne, The Glyndebourne Festival Opera, England
In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials

Public Collections

Green Library
Stanford University Library
Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, CA
Library of Congress
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York
SFMoMA, San Francisco
National Museum of Photography, Bradford, England