《公共事务》汇集了珍妮特•德莱尼（Janet Delaney）在里根时代的旧金山拍摄的照片，表现了抗议和游行的精神。在现在比以往任何时候都更需要建立桥梁的信息的时刻，这本书出现了，它赞美了多元文化和为社会正义而进行的集体斗争。

在她那充满阳光的复古照片中，德莱尼带领我们出入人群——示威者、集市上的人、变装者、工会组织者、选美比赛、舞者、售货员、母亲、孩子和集市上的人——在寻找集体声音的同时，也在寻找许多亲密的时刻。

Capturing the spirit of protest and parade, Public Matters brings together photographs made by Janet Delaney in Reagan-

era San Francisco. At this turbulent time in the mid eighties, Delaney was living in the primarily Latino neighbourhood of the Mission District. She would spend the weekends photographing public gatherings, from the annual Cinco de Mayo parade, to the Peace, Jobs and Justice marches, which rallied against the U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. If political governance was regressing, the West Coast city was a place where, as Delaney remembers, ‘progressive ideas would always be upheld.’ Celebrating multiculturalism and collective struggles for social justice, Public Matters surfaces at a juncture when the message of building bridges is needed now more than ever.

In the vintage glow of her sun-

drenched images, Delaney leads us in and out of crowds – among demonstrators, fair-goers, cross-

dressers, union organisers, beauty pageants, dancers, salesmen, mothers, kids, and market punters – searching for as many intimate moments as she found collective voices. Fearlessly upbeat, her photographs nevertheless intimate a time when, as Delaney recollects, people ‘were reeling from the shift to a conservative government. The demands of the 1960s were addressed in the 70s: the end of the Vietnam war, women’s rights, environmental issues, gay rights, to name a few. Then when Reagan was elected all this came to a halt.’ And as soon as the streets were filled with placards – ‘babies are for loving, not for bombing’; ‘Hatred can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do that’ – Delaney was there, in the middle of the maelstrom, making pictures of public matters.