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Ira Nowinski

Ira Nowinski

Ira Nowinski

Ira Nowinski was born in 1942 and raised in New York. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute and received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1973. He was the official staff photographer for the San Francisco Opera from 1978 until the early 1980s. His wide range of subjects include opera divas, the beats of North Beach, the evacuation of elderly citizens from the hotels in the SOMA area of San Francisco, the Southeast Asian Community in San Francisco, the Karaite Jews in Egypt, Israel and Foster City, the Soviet Jews in San Francisco, as well as the studio of Man Ray, and the Galapagos Islands. He has published more than half a dozen books of photographic collections, and has had major exhibitions at the Stanford Library Peterson Gallery in 2004 and the Judah L. Magnes Museum in 2007.

Ira Nowinski lives in San Francisco and his photographs are in the collections of the Library of Congress, University of California Berkeley Bancroft Library, Stanford University Library Department of Special Collections, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of photography in Bradford, England, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Thick Glass

Today thick glass is an extremely popular material for bathroom/kitchen counters and back splashes.  Thick glass ranging in thicknesses from ¾” to 4” is an exciting new alternative to marble, granite, and Corian.  Thick glass countertops and splashes can be made in a variety of colors, degrees of opaqueness, clear or with bubbles, even silvered to emulate stainless steel.  They look great indoors and outdoors too.  Thick countertops can be made with integral glass sinks for a very smooth overall look.

Back painted glass is another slick contemporary alternative for countertops/ splashes and especially bathrooms and showers. The colors and textures are limitless, and the overall effect is very clean.   Back painted glass not only conforms to your décor, but is easy to clean and keep clean!

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