Victor Arimondi often said the street was his studio. In his early years, he posed models on the street because he couldn’t afford expensive studio lights or sets. In the decade before his untimely death at age 58, he began to photograph the people who actually worked and lived on the city streets. His portraits of San Francisco construction workers and homeless citizens capture their unique personalities and dignity just as his portraits of European aristocrats and artists did at the beginning of his career.