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"Reversing Vandalism"

By Lisa Davis
Posted Friday, April 16, 2004, at 12:04 PM ET

A slide-show essay about how the San Francisco Public Library converted a vandal's crime into art.



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Lisa Davis is a San Francisco-based freelance writer.
All photographs taken by Lisa Davis. Photographs of: Evolution Revolution by Booh Eduardo, aka Boo Bookbinder, courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; Outing Yourself by Lyall F. Harris courtesy of the artist; Dinners & Nightmares by Marlene Russum Scott courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; Queer Reader Mandorla by Amy Conger courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; (Rise on canvas) by Lisa Vollrath courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; Word Vessels by Gretchen Schermerhorn and Eric Burris courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; (framed collage) by Myong Stebbins courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; Blackbird Singing by Sherry Karver courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; The Language Police by Ruth R. Davis courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; (White mask) by Catherine Garedakis courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; For Duf by Dacey Hunter courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; Hawaiian Totem by Linda Watson courtesy of the artist; Best Medicine by Cedar Marie courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library; … Fasten-Ating … by Matthew R. Kelly courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library. All rights reserved.
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