Benjamen Chinn dies at 87; photographer documented San Francisco's Chinatown - Los Angeles Times

Benjamen Chinn dies at 87; photographer documented San Francisco's Chinatown - Los Angeles Times: "Benjamen Chinn, one of the few Chinese American photographers to live and artfully document street scenes in San Francisco's Chinatown, has died. He was 87.

Often photographing from the doorway of his home in Chinatown, Chinn began training his camera on his neighborhood in the late 1930s, but his most productive years were from 1947-1949 while he was studying at what is now the San Francisco Art Institute"