Let me begin with a thought experiment. I sometimes ask my students, my first-year college students, to pretend they are

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Think, for a moment, about the location of a shared experience for our imagination and desire. It could be a

One of the particular, and sometimes peculiar, powers of a photobook is its ability to call up the past with

One of the benefits of being a prolific photographer is that there is a lot to choose from when putting

It is relatively commonplace for a collection of photographs to have an historical intent.  We are accustomed to looking at

Coney Island is one of the bedrocks of American mythology. It does not matter if you’ve never been there. If you are

I will admit to a special fondness for the documentary photobook. More deeply than most photojournalism, these books are often

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This is going to be a very short review of a product I have come to love. Notice I did

The documentary image is a complicated and troubled idea. At one level, it seems straightforward. The goal is to document, without