elizabeth sunflower

Elizabeth Sunflower (1943 - 2008) was a prolific photojournalist based in San Francisco, CA. She lived and worked out of the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco documenting alternative pop-culture of the 1960s and 70s. Sunflower primarily focused on photographing news and pop culture beginning in the late 1960s and continued actively into the 1990s. As a young emerging female photographer Sunflower sought out what she believed were important San Francisco stories and eventually the greater Bay Area. By the early 1970s, Sunflower had established herself as a reliable photojournalist in San Francisco, being published regularly in print and becoming a wire service stringer where her images began to get a national audience.

The Elizabeth Sunflower pieces featured here are presented by Retro Photo Archive (@retrophotoarchive on socials).