Photo Essay: San Francisco & Crockett, CA
A bit of Gemignani history
When I first met Joe, it took me about three months before I was comfortable saying his last name out loud in front of him. Being Joe, he patiently explained that the “gn” in the center was pronounced without the “g” sound, as in gnocchi. Mm, Jewish girl reply: What’s gnocchi?
Second attempt: Jem-in-yanni, as in Jim-and-Johnny.
Oh. Cool.
So when we initially attempted getting a url/domain name for his first website back around 1999 and gemignani dot com was taken, I was floored. Really? Not even Joe knew of another Gemignani, other than Francisco Gemignani, a classical composer pre-Mozart.
But thanks to the internet, we learned of many. And the most interesting discovery was that almost all of them were in the creative arts, and many were quite famous: visual artists, musicians, opera singers, actors, and of course, one exceptional photographer. Gemignani was the name of creative people (and we found one attorney, but that’s a creative professio…