Alan Thomas is a publisher and photographer based in Chicago. His photographs explore the ways that the inhabited landscape affects our sense of the present and the past. He has exhibited at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago and other venues.

Alan was raised in Germany, Yugoslavia, and Virginia. He studied photography at Princeton as an undergraduate and holds an M.Phil. in English from Oxford. He is Editorial Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago Press, where he publishes books on literature, cultural criticism, and related areas.
 

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2012

Contreligne, November 2012

Tokyo/Chicago/Kolkata: Photographs by Alan Thomas, Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, India, 5-12 May 2012

2011

The Blue Corvette, Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm | Design Observer. September 2011

Calcutta: Bookland, Design Observer. March 2011

2010

Second Annual Juried Show, DOVA Temp, Chicago, November 19-December 18, 2010

Open Secrets: Photographs from Japan, Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm | Design Observer. March 2010

Chicago Self-Park, Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm | Design Observer. February 2010

2009

The Opportunity Shop, Chicago, November 27-December 31, 2009.

DOVA Temp Juried Exhibition, Chicago, November 18-28, 2009.

Catherine Edelman Gallery, The Chicago Project: Selections from Our Online Gallery (July 10-September 4, 2009). Blogged by Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin here. Artist's talk here.

2007

Midwest Photographer's Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Xcp: Streetnotes (Winter 2007)

2005-

Catherine Edelman Gallery, The Chicago Project (on-line exhibition)

2005

Photo Works Gallery (Glen Echo, Maryland), 2005


Miscellaneous writings:

On Roy DeCarava's The Sweet Flypaper of Life (In These Times, 1985)