The obscurity of Pirkle Jones' fame as a photographer is surprising. Jones' startling series on the flooding over of Monticello -- the former town in eastern Napa County -- for the creation of Lake Berryessa, is featured in a new exhibit now open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Copia, the American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts, opened two years ago to mixed reactions: curiosity, enthusiasm, skepticism. The ruffle-roofed edifice on the banks of the Napa River had no precedent in the quiet town of Napa, or in the rest of the world, for that matter.

The obscurity of Pirkle Jones' fame as a photographer is surprising. Jones' startling series on the flooding over of Monticello -- the former town in eastern Napa County -- for the creation of Lake Berryessa, is featured in a new exhibit now open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

By The Associated Press

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