THTK

by Abigail Solomon-Godeau

In March 2010 Jason Lazarus began to build an archive of photographs deemed too hard to keep; a project he says he has committed to for life. To date, submissions have included a variety of photographic photo albums, slide, negatives, jpegs, and photo objects depicting friends, family, pets, interiors, lovers, and landscapes. Lazarus encourages donors to the archive to indicate whether the submission may be exhibited and published or if it is to remain private. Anonymity is maintained with all donors. In its first three years the archive grew to include more than 3,000 donations. SF Camerawork hosted a drop box to collected donations to forward to Lazarus from October 2010 to March 2013. This monograph represents a selection of more than 50 images from the archive and includes an essay by acclaimed art historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau. This monograph was produced in conjunction with the SF Camerawork exhibition T.H.T.K (San Francisco) (January 16 - March 16, 2013).

68 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Abigail Solomon-Godeau is an American art critic, exhibition curator and art historian. She is Professor Emerita of the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several books, including Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices; Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation; Rosemary Laing; Chair à canons: Photographie, discours, féminisme; and coauthor of Birgit Jürgenssen.