Throwing-Nikomat

Artist Lew Thomas (American, 1932 - 2021)

Date1973; printed 2014

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet (each): 13 3/8 × 10 3/8 inches (33.97 × 26.35 cm)
Mount (each): 13 3/8 × 10 3/8 inches (33.97 × 26.35 cm)
Image (overall): 26 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches (67.95 × 52.71 cm)
Mount (overall): 28 3/8 × 22 3/8 inches (72.09 × 56.85 cm)
Framed: 29 1/8 × 23 1/8 × 3 inches (73.99 × 58.75 × 7.62 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.20.255

SignedSigned on lower right of gallery label, on frame backing board, top, in black pen: "Lew Thomas"

Inscribednone

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 2/5 + 2 A.P.s

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DescriptionFour photographs mounted in two rows and presented as one. The upper left and lower right images are of a man tossing a Nikomat camera into the air above his head. The other two are blurred, abstract images - presumably of what the camera captured while being thrown.Gallery Label

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“There is a conscious attempt to join cause and effect within a photographic structure…”

—Artist Lew Thomas describes making photographs while throwing his Nikomat-brand camera

“Throwing-Nikomat integrate[s] the act of photography with the images photographed … Throwing-Nikomat is represented in two photographs by the documentation of the activity. The complementary images illustrate the photographs taken automatically by the camera during the course of its flight.”

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