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Chloe Veltman

Photographer David Johnson, who chronicled San Francisco's Black culture, dies at 97

"Boy and Lincoln, 1963" by David Johnson. (The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)

David Johnson generally wasn't interested in people posing for his camera.

As the photographer and civil rights activist put it in a 2017 interview at the University of California, Berkeley: "A big smiling photograph? That wasn't my style."

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