June 17, 2004 - June 10, 2005
Jesse Kalisher: The Human Race at Work
500 12th Street, lobby.
Oakland, CA 94607
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday 7am - 7pm.
This exhibit is a collaboration between the Oakland Museum of California and Shorenstein Realty Services.
Open and free to the public. BART, AC Transit and Wheelchair accessible.

Presented by the Oakland Museum of California Professional Services division

Professional Services Exhibition Archive

Jesse Kalisher

The Oakland Museum of California is pleased to present Jesse Kalisher: The Human Race At Work located at Oakland City Center, 500 12th Street, Oakland, California. The Human Race At Work features 11 photographs from eight different countries portraying people commuting to work or in the midst of their workday. Having traveled to 21 countries and five continents, Kalisher states that work “is what we do to pay for our homes and our meals; for our clothes and our toys. It is what we do, perhaps most of all, to give our lives meaning.” The pieces selected for this exhibition document working people from Ethiopia, Burma, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey and India.

Kalisher received his first camera at the age of six and has been photographing ever since. He resided in San Francisco for fourteen years and recently relocated to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His work is in the collections of the Oakland Museum of California and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. Kalisher is represented by the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles and the June Bateman Gallery in New York. He has exhibited at the Chicago Field Museum, Photo S.F., Photo L.A. and the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, among others.

To learn more about Jesse Kalisher, please visit his web site at www.kalisher.com