RON HENGGELER

February 9, 2021
Graphics, triptychs, photos, & old family photos

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H 

circa 1983

The Dutra Museum of Dredging

Rio Vista

2014

Dutra Museum

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 1

Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University

2017

Stanford Memorial Church

Lincoln Park

San Francisco

2014

Lincoln Park

1879 Photograph of Leland Stanford Jr. on his pony Gypsy

by Eadweard Muybridge

Cantor Art Center

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 2

Illustration by 19th-century French artist Jean-Jacques Grandville

He skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.

A mural in Clarion Alley 

San Francisco 2011 

Clarion Alley Mural Project

R H

1 year old

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

George Frideric Handel

1685-1759

Handel's Messiah

Sutro Forest

San Francisco

2013

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 3

Virgil Thomson

1896-1989

virgilthomson.org

Fillmore & Fulton

San Francisco 1936

Open SF History

Lick Observatory

Mt. Hamilton

ucolick.org

Girolamo Frescobaldi

1583-1643

Photo by Mark Anstendig 

anstendig.com

Stanford University

2017

Stanford University

Francisco

(San Francisco)

2014

Illustration by 19th-century French artist Jean-Jacques Grandville

He skewered the aristocrats and politicians of his time by illustrating society figures as animals.

Stockton & Sutter

San Francisco

2012

Marie Zderic

San Francisco

2014

My home sweet home

Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

1978

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

circa. 1997

Macy's Union Square

San Francisco

2012

The old City of Paris rotunda at Stockton & Geary

2012

Union Square, San Francisco

Fillmore near Haight Street, San Francisco

2011

Fisherman's Wharf

San Francisco

2012

The Dutra Museum of Dredging

Rio Vista

2014

Dutra Museum

 

Fog, and the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge

2005

Grandparents in their courting days

Nebraska

San Francisco

2014

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

Julia Margaret Cameron

San Francisco

circa 1996

Brian Swager

Palace of the Legion of Honor

San Francisco

2014

Brian Swager

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1840-1893

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

 

Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

Sacramento River

Rio Vista

2014

A sunrise in San Francisco from my window

2017

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Bixby Creek Bridge on Highway 1

Big Sur

2010

 

Mary Ann and Don with Ron 1yr.

Merry-Go-Round

San Francisco Zoo

2015

SF Zoo

Eadweard Muybridge

Cantor Art Center

Golden Gate Bridge

2005

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

A view of downtown San Francisco from the Top of the Mark

Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel

2009

The Guitarist

1757

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French 1725–1805)

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 4

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H 

1986

Sutro Forest

San Francisco

2009

Hector Berlioz

1803-1869

 

Nob Hill, from the 15th floor of the Hamilton

2020

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 5

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange


 

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 6

William Whitehead

1947-2019

Fillmore & Fulton

San Francisco 1936

Open SF History

Sutro Forest

San Francisco

2013

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Kobe Bryant

Helene Wiegel, wife of Bertolt Brecht

Photo by Mark Anstendig 

anstendig.com

Lincoln Park

San Francisco

2014

Lincoln Park

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Robert Frank

Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University

2017

Stanford Memorial Church

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 7

The family on vacation near McGregor, Indiana

1964

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Berenice Abbott

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 8

Detail of the old City of Paris rotunda

2012

R H

San Francisco

circa 1984-85

Virgil Thomson 1987

1896-1989

virgilthomson.org

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 9

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H 

1986

R H

Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota

1963

North tower of the Golden Gate Bridge as seen on the trail above Kirby Cove

2010

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Sam Abell

 

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 10

Sunset at Battery Spencer near the Golden Gate Bridge

Marin Headlands

2010

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

Photo by Mark Anstendig 

anstendig.com

South tower of the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog

2005

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

David Lynch

Mom

1972

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 11

Illustration by 19th-century French artist Jean-Jacques Grandville

San Francisco

2012

Joe Pecora

Author of, The Storied Houses of Alamo Square


2014

R H

1 year old

Joan of Arc, by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington

Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park

San Francisco

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 12

San Francisco Zoo

2015

SF Zoo

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber

John Zderic

San Francisco

2014

Lincoln Park

San Francisco

2014

Lincoln Park

Merry-Go-Round

San Francisco Zoo

2015

SF Zoo

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

Lewis Carroll

Dad & Ron

1963

William Whitehead

1947-2019

My home sweet home

Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

1973

The roadway cable of the Golden Gate Bridge

2005

The family's visit to my tipi in Arkansas

(Dad, Mom, and two youngest brothers)

Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

1973

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

Illustration by J. J. Grandville

Lilac Street

Mission District, San Francisco

2011

Pen, ink, & paper collage by R H 

circa 1983

Sacramento River

Rio Vista

2014

Hans Sachs

1494-1576

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Highway 1, south of the Bixby Creek Bridge

2010

Lilac Street

Mission District, San Francisco

2011

Train wreck near Rogers, Nebraska

1963

Dave 4, Jay 6, Doug 2, Ron 10

Sutro Forest

San Francisco

2013

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 13

Don Henggeler

1949

San Francisco

2014

Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University

2017

Stanford Memorial Church

Ron & brothers

circa 1969-70

A page from an old photo album

Triptych 14

Lick Observatory

Mt. Hamilton

ucolick.org

Merry-Go-Round

San Francisco Zoo

2015

SF Zoo

Collage by R H

2008

 

Grandma and her kids

1967

my dad is on the far left

Lick Observatory

Mt. Hamilton

ucolick.org

David

Photo by Mark Anstendig 

anstendig.com

self-portrait

2021

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Jane Goodall

 

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