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Back to Private: Sam Contis

San Francisco Magazine

Higher Ed in the High Desert

By Ian A. Stewart

May 2017

A new BAMPFA exhibit explores college life…in the middle of nowhere.

What do you get when you combine a couple dozen all-male liberal arts school kids, a cattle ranch, and a 155-acre farm—and set it all in the middle of the desert? Inspiration, at least in the case of Berkeley artist Sam Contis.

Contis’s dive into life at Deep Springs College, a tiny all-male school located in the high desert of Inyo County 40 miles east of Bishop, is the subject of a new photography exhibit opening this month (May 3–Aug. 27) at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as part of its Matrix series. Read More

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