Truth and photography : notes on looking and photographing.

From the "blurb":
"Pictures made by a lens are inextricably linked to the real world—the world the photographer not only sees but lives in and thinks about. The most ambitious photographs (in an earlier time one might confidently have said the greatest photographs) recognize that an understanding of the identities of things, and of their relationships, is as important as the harmonious combination of the shapes these things make when projected by a lens onto a flat surface.
Starting from this premise, and writing in elegant and incisive prose, Jerry Thompson here explores the many-leveled relationship between seeing and thinking. Truth and Photography reproduces in duotone twenty-three photographs-some as well known as any the medium has produced, some more obscure, and some never before published. Mr. Thompson uses them to illustrate his observations about pictures and picture-taking occasions. He is concerned not strictly with history or theory. He does not rely exclusively on his thirty-year experience as a working photographer, nor are his essays confined to the medium of photography. Rather, Mr. Thompson employs multiple perspectives, usually in the same essay and often on a single picture."