Photography and Language by Lew Thomas
Author: Lew Thomas
Design: Donna-Lee Phillips
Publisher: NFS Press, San Francisco
Third Printing, 1979
ISBN: 0-917986-01-6
Papercover
Page Count: 86
Condition: Good to Very good.
Information retrieved from a Google search: Catalog published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition held at Camerawork Gallery and La Mamelle's Arts Center in San Francisco in 1976, curated by co-founders of the Photography and Language movement Lew Thomas and Donna-Lee Phillips. Published as the inaugural book in Thomas and Lee-Phillips’s publishing enterprise NFS.
It is interesting to see how many and how fierce are the debates about photography. Not the technical debates but the meaning and philosophy debates about what it is proper to photograph, in what contexts, for which intent, for what audiences, under what cautionary attached text. The old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words is inverted. Now a picture requires a thousand words of justification and defense. Does all this navel gazing lead to better photography or better understanding? This San Francisco coterie of artists thought so, and the exhibition is their take on it.
Author: Lew Thomas
Design: Donna-Lee Phillips
Publisher: NFS Press, San Francisco
Third Printing, 1979
ISBN: 0-917986-01-6
Papercover
Page Count: 86
Condition: Good to Very good.
Information retrieved from a Google search: Catalog published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition held at Camerawork Gallery and La Mamelle's Arts Center in San Francisco in 1976, curated by co-founders of the Photography and Language movement Lew Thomas and Donna-Lee Phillips. Published as the inaugural book in Thomas and Lee-Phillips’s publishing enterprise NFS.
It is interesting to see how many and how fierce are the debates about photography. Not the technical debates but the meaning and philosophy debates about what it is proper to photograph, in what contexts, for which intent, for what audiences, under what cautionary attached text. The old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words is inverted. Now a picture requires a thousand words of justification and defense. Does all this navel gazing lead to better photography or better understanding? This San Francisco coterie of artists thought so, and the exhibition is their take on it.
Author: Lew Thomas
Design: Donna-Lee Phillips
Publisher: NFS Press, San Francisco
Third Printing, 1979
ISBN: 0-917986-01-6
Papercover
Page Count: 86
Condition: Good to Very good.
Information retrieved from a Google search: Catalog published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition held at Camerawork Gallery and La Mamelle's Arts Center in San Francisco in 1976, curated by co-founders of the Photography and Language movement Lew Thomas and Donna-Lee Phillips. Published as the inaugural book in Thomas and Lee-Phillips’s publishing enterprise NFS.
It is interesting to see how many and how fierce are the debates about photography. Not the technical debates but the meaning and philosophy debates about what it is proper to photograph, in what contexts, for which intent, for what audiences, under what cautionary attached text. The old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words is inverted. Now a picture requires a thousand words of justification and defense. Does all this navel gazing lead to better photography or better understanding? This San Francisco coterie of artists thought so, and the exhibition is their take on it.