WHY IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE IN FOCUS

Jackie Higgins offers a lively, informed defence of modern photography. Choosing 100 key photographs with particular emphasis on t he last twenty years she examines what inspired each photographer in the first place, and traces how the piece was executed. In do ing so, she brings to light the layers of meaning and artifice behind these singular works, some of which were initially dismissed o ut of hand for being blurred, overexposed or badly composed.