Time Management Techniques
Sept 24, 2022–Jan 8, 2023
Lew Thomas
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For this work, Lew Thomas made thirty-six photographs—a quantity determined by the number of exposures in a standard roll of film—documenting the hands of a darkroom timer counting down one minute. He then printed one set of thirty-six images in positive and the other negative.
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Lew Thomas, TIME EQUALS 36 EXPOSURES (positive and negative sections), 1971. Seventy two gelatin silver prints mounted on board, 47 15/16 × 99 7/8 × 2 in. (121.8 × 253.7 × 5.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Beth Rudin DeWoody. © Estate of Lew Thomas, courtesy Philip Marten Gallery