Janet Delaney is an American photographer. She was born in 1952. Her work looks at the connections between work, home and changing cities. Her projects often grow from research and interviews. She first became known for her series South of Market, about the changes in San Francisco in the 1980s. Her first book, South of Market, 1978-1980, was published by MACK in 2013. Later projects include Public Matters and Red Eye to New York.
She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2020. She has received three NEA grants and a one-year residency from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young, the High Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and held a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her book Too Many Products Too Much Pressure was published by Deadbeat Club in 2025. In 1980 she followed her father for a week as he sold beauty supplies to shops around Los Angeles. She shot on Kodachrome with direct flash. The book has 112 pages and also includes text from her mother.
