WHY PHOTOGRAPHY MATTERS

Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it worksnot only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. Wit h this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging and lucid meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-m aking arts. He constructs an argument that moves with natural logic from Thomas Pynchon (and why we read him for his vision and not his command of miscellaneous facts) to Jonathan Swift to Plato to Emily Dickinson (who wrote Tell all the Truth but tell it slant) to detailed...[Read more]