The Nature of Photographs: by Stephen Shore, an illustrated essay about how photographs work.

<U>The Nature of Photographs</U> , Stephen Shore, (published by The Johs HopkinsUniversity Press, 1998 (ISBN 0-8018-5720-1 (paperback))).<P>

This book is about how a photograph, any photograph works. How --as the prologue by James L. Enyeart puts it --<I>" ...it is possible for visual language to inform and reform our learned assumptions...how a photograph functions by providing a visual grammar that elucidates the photograph's meaning."</I><P>

The language is clear and thankfully free of philosophic jargon. Very well illustrated. 86 pages.