Vis­i­ble Light

self-revelation and tran­scen­dence as told in the sto­ries of four not so famous pho­tog­ra­phers, chron­i­cling the form of their pur­suit, and the mean­ings they find. few peo­ple write as symp­to­mati­cally and sym­pa­thet­i­cally of the uses of pho­tog­ra­phy as well as Michael Lesy.

The Cam­era Viewed Vol­ume II: Writ­ings on Twentieth-Century Photography

words by artists, crit­ics, his­to­ri­ans, and the­o­rists; con­tains Jerry Uels­mann on post-visualisation, Fred­er­ick Sommer’s Extem­po­ra­ne­ous Talk at the Art Insti­tute of Chicago, Duane Michals’ con­ver­sa­tion with stu­dents, an inter­view with Garry Wino­grand, Martha Rosler on Lee Fried­lan­der, Max Kazloff on the Uncanny Por­trait, as well as essays by Barthes, Son­tag, Kra­cauer, Bazin, and Arnheim.