Alan Thomas was raised in Virginia and lives in Chicago. He graduated from Princeton University, where he studied photography with Emmet Gowin and Frederick Sommer. He also holds an M.Phil. in English Studies from Oxford University. His writings on photography have appeared in the New Art Examiner and In These Times. He is an editorial director at the University of Chicago Press.

For more photographs see Alan Thomas's page on Flickr.

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2010

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

Chicago Self-Park essay and slide-show, 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)