A Picture Book Without Pictures
Daylight Magazine
They have the power to steal your breath, provoke tears. They might overwhelm and inspire you, bring you to your knees, even.
But they won’t. These moments passed into oblivion, unfixed by the camera — snapshots that went unsnapped. Now, they’re in a book: a photography book without pictures.
The collection, "Photographs Not Taken,” edited by Will Steacy, features the testimonies of 60 photographers who recount the moments that slipped from their photographic grip, either because they couldn’t take the picture, or wouldn’t.
The notion of photographer as globe-trotting adventurer, at the scene of historic events recording every important moment, is reassessed in this collection. If anything, these photographers lament that their task prevents them from fully engaging with the present. As Lyle Rexer wrote in his introduction, it’s a dilemma of to be or to shoot.
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more: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/a-picture-book-without-pictures/#/1/
These essays should be interesting among other things.
