The San Francisco International Airport Museum Shows the Paris Photos of Benjamen Chinn

artwork: Benjamen Chinn - "Boulangerie Girl, Rue de Tocqueville, Paris, France - April 20", 1951 - Archival modern print from original negative. Courtesy of The Benjamen Chinn Photographic Archive. On view at the San Francisco International Airport Museum from September until November.


San Francisco, CA.- The San Francisco International Airport Museum is proud to present “Benjamen Chinn: Paris 1950–1951”, on view at the F3 – Gate 76 Photography Gallery from September through November. Benjamen Chinn was born on Commercial Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown district in 1921. Chinn’s interest in photography started when he was ten years old. His older brother, John, taught him how to develop and print photographs in the family basement, which they had converted into a darkroom. Later, during World War II, Chinn used his photography skills as an aerial and public-relations photographer for the U.S. Army Air Corps based at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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