Structural Photography by Thomas Lew (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very good. first edition as stated. 9 x 12 in. Paper wraps. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, light wear to corners and spine ends. Binding tight, text clean, unmarked. Photo. RGR.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Oversized softcover. One of 1500 copies. A clean tight unmarked copy, an inch chip to top pf spine, edgewear and light creasing to covers, internally fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 112 pages; 1978 NFS Press. Oversize paperback in glossy pictorial covers. 1st edition, limited to 1200 copies. Soundly bound with no marks. Shelf top spill had left a dmap wave and light tea colred damp line across the bottom edge of the covers and all pages. The ripple and damp line does not intrude on image or text but is a significant flaw. No pages stuck together or and such issue. Otherwise light shelf evidence to cover edges. B&W photos on glossy stock throughout. With faults, Good only.…

Softcover. A glossy white softcover book featuring a series of photos on the front and back covers. Pages: 1-112. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Signed by the author. VG+: A book in excellent condition. Tight binding and clear pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Copiously illustrated n B&W. Slightly soiled spine and covers; otherwise in very good condition. Clean and unmarked inside. 4to.

first edition, 1978. limited to 1500 copies. san francisco: nfs press. isbn: 0-917986-04-0. 9 x 12 inches. 112 pages. softcover. bound in paper wrappers. book condition: bumped, lightly toned and soiled. scrattling to spine. book plate to front endpaper. very good-.

Condition: Very good. First edition. Scarce first printing of the conceptual photographer's landmark work. Important document of Thomas's work as artist and critic. Thomas was a significant influence on a number of photographers belonging to or associated with the Photography and Language group, including Hal Fischer, Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, Allan Sekula, and others; laid in to this copy is a contemporary order form for Fischer's GAY SEMIOTICS, the first book published by Thomas and Phillips's own NFS Press. 12'' x 9''. Original black and white wrappers. Introduction by John Brumfield. Design and production by Donna-Lee Phillips. Black and white plates throughout. 112 pages. With two original NFS Press book order forms laid in (for Hal Fischer's GAY SEMIOTICS and Wanda Hammerbeck's DEPOSITIONS). Creasing and scuffing to corners and spine ends, with moderate toning and soil to covers. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Touch of soil to white covers. ; Pictorial white wrappers; black & white photographs and other reproductions throughout. ; 11.8 X 8.9 X 0.3 inches; 112 pages.

Internally clean and bright in slightly dusty and creased publishers decorated wrappers with 1.5mm tear to edge of front panel. . 1st edition. Illustrated throughout. ISBN 0917986040.

VG bright copy in slightly rubbed and marked publishers decorated wrappers. 1st edition, 1st issue. ISBN 0917986040.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. San Francisco, NFS Press, 1978. Quarto, 112 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers a little rubbed, marked and creased; unobtrusive restoration to a couple of short tears at the foot of the spine; scattered light foxing; old gallery label on the rear cover; a very good copy. 'An influential figure in the Bay Area art scene in the late 1970s and early 80s, Thomas, aside from making and showing his work, also organized group exhibitions for local nonprofit art spaces and museums, and published books with Donna-Lee Phillips under the imprint NFS (Not-For-Sale) Press . "Structural(ism) and Photography", published by NFS in 1978, documents the body of photographs and installations that followed from [Thomas' earlier work] BLACK & WHITE. Concerned primarily with time, duration, and sequence, the work was guided by Thomas's distinctive gloss on Structuralist thought' (Erin O'Toole: 'Lew Thomas's Structural(ism) and Photography', in 'Aperture', Winter 2014). Introduction by John Brumfield; design and production by Donna-Lee Philips.…