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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) X MACK, Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs, 2020
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) X MACK, Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs, 2020
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) X MACK, Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs, 2020
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) X MACK, Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs, 2020
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) X MACK, Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs, 2020
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) X MACK, Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs, 2020
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    Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) X MACK

    Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs, 2020
    Paperback
    23 x 30.5 cm, 216 pages

    ISBN 978-1-912339-63-1
    April 2020
    © Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer Erin O'Toole (ed.) courtesy of MACK

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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,...
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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 were all extremely active in the mid to late 1970s. In addition to making their own artwork, they published essays, reviewed shows and organized exhibitions. Under the name NFS Press, Thomas published a number of books designed by Phillips, including Structural(ism) and Photography (1978), which featured Thomas’ work; Eros and Photography (1977), which was edited by Phillips, and two books of Fischer’s work: Gay Semiotics (1978) and 18th Near Castro Street x 24 (1979).

    Published in conjunction with an exhibition featuring photographs by these three artists that will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art January 4 – August 9, 2020, this volume assesses their work, their relationship to one another and their place in the history of photography in the 1970s.

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