THOUGHT PIECES: 1970s Photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer

THOUGHT PIECES: 1970s Photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal FischerFrom the press: 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

For all its faults

From the press: Poems that break with traditional syntax and disrupt our perceptions of how language works in this first collection in English of poems by one of South Korea's most established contemporary poets and critics

they grapple with an impulse that’s bedeviled our species since the dawn of consciousness: redemption

students and other creatives responded to the book’s open call with contributions that challenge how to practice fashion and reflect on its systems

Girls go blind

the poem hints at the isolated prospect of relations running counter to accumulation

She’s a cat orchestra

Zane Fischer

Elaine Lopez

Metroverlag

Susan Daitch

Stacy Skolnik