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The hands and tats of a prisoner in the San Francisco County Jail. Photo: Robert Gumpert 31 May, 2009

Street scene. Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1972

Elevator occupants at a Tenderloin SRO. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1994

Grand Central Terminal, New York City, March 5, 2005. Left an information officer and on the right a janitor, coworkers and friends. Photo: Robert Gumpert

Breakfast in a downtown Detroit, Michigan cafe. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1986

Rehearsal. San Francisco Ballet. Photo: Robert Gumpert 2004

Same sex “marriage” ceremony held by the City of San Francisco in support of gay rights. Photo: Robert Gumpert 1996


Recommended Readings

Book

The Gales of November: the Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (The ship, the lifes lost, the families left behind and the changes for those still sailing the lakes)  John U. Bacon -Liveright Publishing 2025

Readings and viewings

Banking beyond the law - Miles Kellerman - Aeon

Photographer captured faces of the American South during Jim Crow - Emile Richardson ABC News

Inside Universe 25 - Discovery - BBC audio

MAKING COFFEE WITH A CANDLE—AND OTHER NOTES FROM A CUBA GONE DARK - Jesus Jank Cubbelo - Texas Observer

‘It’s not a story that’s over’: inside the battle against hatred in America - Martin Pengelly - The Guardian

‘A constant quiet terror’: Getting lost in Irish folklore - Maria Lax - The Guardian

Join the dots - Jenny Greene - Aeon

Remembering Raghu Rai - Magnum Photos

Letters from an American - Heather Cox Richardson

Robert Gumpert

Author/Photographer of "Division Street" living amongst staggering wealth on the streets of San Francisco. Published by Dewi Lewis

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