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Thought piecesErin O'Toole

Thought pieces

2020212 pages
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In the early 1970s, Lew Thomas set out to disrupt photography in San Francisco. Tired of the mystical thinking and emotionalism that had underscored Bay Area photography since the 1940s, Thomas pursued a photographic practice grounded in ideas gleaned from conceptual art and Structuralist philosophy. A cohort of other photographers, including Donna-Lee Phillips and Hal Fischer, embraced Thomas' mission, joining him in what became known as the 'Photography and Language' movement, named after a book and group exhibition of the same title produced by Thomas in 1976. Thomas, Phillips and Fischer…

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  • Other · English · 2020
    Mack · 212 pages · 9781912339631
Artistic PhotographyExhibitionsLiterature and photographyPhotographyInterviewsPhotograph collectionsFotografieSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art