Photography at Bay. Interviews, Essays and reviews.

Contains the following chapters: HISTORY AND HISTORICAL
CONSTRUCTIONS An interview with Naomi Rosenblum; An interview
with Weston J. Naef ; From Magic Lantern to Mosern Form: some
historical notes on a Maverick Medium; Sitter's Dream: early
photographic portraits; The Insistent Object; Photography until
Now (exh. rev.); MODERNISM An interview with Van Deren Coke;
With
Aaron Siskind; Vilem Kriz; Joel-Peter Witkin and L'Amour Fou;
Lee Friedlander: Shiloh; NOTATIONS AS FACT Interv.
with Sandra Phillips; Interv. with Salgado; Eli Reed; The
Turbulent
Sixties in the Bay Area: Photography of Dissent ; Richard
Gordon: American Politics, 1980-84 Lionel Delvigne: Glory,
Glory ; Catherine Wagner: The American Classroom;
The world of Casasola; Daredevils and Falling Horses: Notes
on Spectacular Photographs ; Unfamiliar Faces, Facts, and Feats
;
THE POETIC IMAGINATION Interv. with Henri Holmes Smith ;
Interv. with Meridel Rubenstein ; Primitive Images ;
Minor White Retrospective ; Helen Levitt ; ASPECTS OF THE
PSYCHE Interv. with Ann Noggle ; Interv. with Diana C. du Pont ;
Interiors: Colour Photographs by Lorie Novak ; Pierre Molinier,
Sixteen Erotic Photographs; Florence Henri; CULTURE
AND CULTURAL CONSTRUCTS Interv. with Thomas W. Barrow ;
Interv. with Mark Alice Durant ; Interv. with Betty Hahn ;
Robert
Fichter: Photography and other questions; Fotografie aus Berlin
;
Sharon Boysel: Photographic Environments ; The Painted
Photograph and Three colour photographers ; Playing it again:
Strategies of Appropriation ; Nature and Culture: Conflict and
Reconciliation in recent photography; Beyond Belief ; Afterword:
Northern California: an occasional account of its
photographic character. (most were first published in Photo
Metro (magazine). Some others in San Francisco Camerawork
Quarterly. Others are original first publications).