Movements for Change: Bob Fitch Photo Exhibit at Stanford University

Movements for Change: Bob Fitch Photo Exhibit at Stanford University Bob Fitch Photo Archive Exhibit. Sept 30,2014-March 18th, 2015. Green Library-Stanford (http://libra

"Movements for Change" features photographs of key people and moments in the U.S. civil rights movement, farmworker organizing, and the peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s by Watsonville photographer Bob Fitch. Fitch was a seminary studenet in the mid-1960s when he began working as an activist photographer From his 1st volunteer assignment for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1965

through documenting Luis Alejo's 2010 campaign for a seat in the California State Assembly, Fitch's photographs reveal and celebrate the people who make up movements for change. The Fitch Archive was acquired for the Stanford University Libraries' research collection in 2013. "Movements for Change" displays iconic images that many will recognize as well as rarely seen photographs that provide context to well-known historical events. More images:
(http://tinyurl.com/mkpozdx) / (http://tinyurl.com/lmzemqv). A catalog of the exhibit is also available for sale (http://library.stanford.edu/spc/publications)

03/07/2023

Starting with sensuous posters for Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, his graphic work came to visually define the city and the bohemian ethos that took root there.

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