Who Cares About Books?

Earlier this year I was asked to contribute a brief essay about photography books to the website WordsWithoutPictures. The brainchild of Charlotte Cotton, curator and director of the photography department at LACMA, WordsWithoutPictures was begun as a “way to expand dialogue about photography.” The list of previous contributers is wide-ranging, including Paul Graham, Jason Fulford, Siri Kauer, Alex Klein, Tim Barber, Shane Lavalette, Lesley A. Martin, Arthur Ou, Dayanita Singh, and Mark Wyse among many others. I feel lucky to be in such good company…

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    [...] timing isn’t going to work out. Darius has an interesting blog, which lead me to his article Who Cares About Books? I’d read another article by Darius in photo-eye magazine that referenced Martin Parr and [...]

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