James Guimond

Photography as Myth / Photography as History (on On Photography by Susan Sontag; & Time in a Frame: Photography and the Nineteenth-century Mind by Alan Thomas)

Toward a Philosophy of Photography

Seeing and Selling America: 1945-1955 (on Life: The Second Decade, 1946-1955 by Doris C. O’Neil; Out of the Forties by Nicholas Lemann; & Roy Stryker: U.S.A., 1943-1950; The Standard Oil (New Jersey) Photography Project by Steven W. Plattner)

Photography Raw / Photography Cooked (on The Work of Atget: Old France by John Szarkowski, Maria Morris Hambourg; Three Seconds from Eternity by Robert Doisneau; William Klein, Photographs: New York and Rome also Moscow and Tokyo also Elsewhere, Etc. by William Klein, John Heilpern; & Hearts of Darkness by Don McCullin, John Le Carré)

Old Frontiers / New Images (on Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians by Wendy Ewald; In the American West: 1979-1984 by Richard Avedon; & Rich and Poor by Jim Goldberg)

on In Visible Light: Photography and the American Writer: 1840-1940 by Carol Shloss; Image and Word: The Interaction of Twentieth-century Photographs and Texts by Jefferson Hunter

Exotic Friends, Evil Others, and Vice Versa

Photography: Post-Evans (on And their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson & Close up by William Klein)

Going to Extremes (on The Work of Atget: The Ancien Régime by John Szarkowski, Maria Morris; Mountains of the Middle Kingdom by Galen Rowell; Worlds in a Small Room by Irving Penn; &El Salvador by Harry Mattison, Susan Meiselas, Fae Rubinstein, Carolyn Forché)