bA comprehensive survey of Arnold Genthe's life and his legendary photography of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fireb p Berlin-born photographer Arnold Genthe 1869-1942 was an established member of San Francisco's art community when disaster struck on April 18, 1906. Though Genthe lost much of his photographic equipment and most of his negatives in the inferno that swept through the city that day, he borrowed a pocket camera and immediately began to document the destruction, ultimately producing more than 170 views starting within hours of the earthquake and continuing for several weeks. Unlike the many commercial photographers who cashed in on the demand for earthquake-related imagery, Genthe printed few of his negatives and rarely displayed them. After the artist's death in 1942, the Legion of Honor purchased his original earthquake negatives, and, in 1956, the museum contracted Ansel Adams to print twenty-two of the works in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the disaster--ho