Above San Francisco [antikvár]

San Francisco! "The most attractive, most civilized, most desirable city in the country," Holiday magazine rhapsodized more than a quarter of a century ago. "Nobody else's town is quite so beautful or cosmopolitan or delightfully giddy." We San Franciscans are accustomed to being slathered with such praise, but it is good to have it confirmed in the lyric photographs by Robert Cameron that follow. The blessings of nature not only define where we live but how we live, which is in an enclave unlike any other. It is a peninsula seven miles square bursting with hills and sweeping vistas. We like to say our little world is bounded on three sides by water and on the fourth by reality. from the Introduction by Arthur Hoppe