SAN artist David Johnson featured on Forum/KQED

Friday, August 9, 2013

 African-American photographer David Johnson grew up in segregated Florida, and says his life changed the moment he moved to San Francisco to study with Ansel Adams in 1945. Johnson's photographs of San Francisco's African-American community in the 1940s and '50s, including the thriving jazz clubs in the Fillmore, captured a city and people in the midst of change. Johnson and his…