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Directly beneath the mammoth Bay Bridge in San Francisco - past the tourist hordes clogging the Ferry Building and before I reach the picturesque waterfront surrounding the Giants' baseball stadium - I come to an oversize archway marked "Pier 24." Before me, an abandoned stretch of railroad track leads directly into San Francisco Bay. On either side stand two giant gray warehouses. One has a darkly tinted glass door: the low-key entrance to an exciting new museum. THIS STORY Side Order: San Francisco's unusual new museum of photography Details: Pier 24
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This is Pier 24 photography, the brainchild of local investment banker Andrew Pilara. Seven years ago, Pilara went to an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that showcased Diane Arbus's black-and-white photographs of children with Down syndrome. He was so taken with the photos that he tracked down Arbus's dealer and bought one, the first photograph he'd ever purchased.
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"I was just wowed that these pieces of paper with a little nitrate on them could be so moving," says Pilara, who quickly became an obsessive collector of documentary photography and now owns more than 2,000 photos by many of the 20th century's most respected artists. To display them, he leased this 28,000-square-foot warehouse, which came
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