EROS & PHOTOGRAPHY

Editors: Lew Thomas, John Brumfield
Manager & Designer: Donna-Lee Phillips
Typography: Step One Productions
Distributed by: Whirlwind Books

Publisher: Camerawork / NFS Press, San Francisco
Year: 1977. First edition.
Format: Softcover
Pages: 118
Language: English
ISBN: 0-917986-01-4
Condition: Good. The book is generally sound, with wear to the spine and the lower-left corner of the rear cover, along with handling marks in places. Interior clean.

Published by Camerawork / NFS Press in San Francisco in 1977, this first edition is a landmark publication documenting the radical transformation of photography during one of its most experimental decades. Produced by Camerawork, one of the most influential alternative photography organizations in the United States, the volume reflects the growing dialogue between documentary practice, conceptual art, and politically engaged image-making.

Bringing together essays, portfolios, and critical discussions, the publication examines photography not simply as a documentary medium but as a cultural, social, and artistic force. Its pages capture the intellectual climate that shaped photographic discourse throughout the 1970s, when independent publishers and artist run spaces became essential platforms for new ideas.

Designed under the direction of Donna Lee Phillips and edited by Lew Thomas and John Brumfield, the book remains an important artifact of the West Coast photography scene and the independent publishing movement that redefined photographic culture in America.

An increasingly scarce reference for collectors of photographic history, conceptual art, and independent artist publishing.