On PhotographyWinner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. |
Contents
In Platos Cave | 1 |
America Seen Through Photographs Darkly | 25 |
Melancholy Objects | 49 |
The Heroism of Vision | 83 |
Photographic Evangels | 113 |
The ImageWorld | 151 |
A Brief Anthology of Quotations | 181 |
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