I will admit, my first reaction when I opened Anastasia Samoylova’s Atlantic Coast was “Oh my, we’ve been here before.”

In her book On Photography (1977), the late American essayist Susan Sontag wrote that photographs are “a grammar, and even

Let me begin with a comment about the size of a photo book. Most books, the literary kind, are meant

Let me tell you a story. A few days ago, my daughter, who is in her mid-30s, called and wanted

Capturing Kennedy, a documentary film mostly about the relationship between German-born photographer Jacques Lowe and American politician John F. Kennedy,

For a great many photographers, Cuba is alluring. Images of Cuba, and of Havana in particular, have filled all sorts

One of the powers of photography is its ability to isolate. By definition, a photograph is an isolated moment. We

I cannot tell you when I first heard of the Serengeti plain or Mount Kilimanjaro. I cannot tell you when

Every now and then, when I am sent a photobook to review, I am struck by the desire to write

Sometimes a photobook can go straight to your dreams. I remember countless hours as a child, building model cars, model

One of the interesting things about photography is its ability to be timeless. Yes, photography has tremendous importance for current

Let me begin this way— If you have any love for Paris, or any love for the idea of Paris,

According to the infallible World Wide Web, the record for the longest exposure photograph is a bit more than eight

What is the most important attribute of a documentarian? Respect? Empathy? An unsentimental, if not occasionally brutal, honesty? Ed Kashi

Sometimes the old truths are the best. Yes, it’s now a cliché and a trope to invoke Henri Cartier-Bresson. Still,