I would recommend exploring the photographs in this book before reading about them. If you look at them and spend time with them, the impact will be personal rather than relying on what has been said. The photographs should really speak for themselves.

The text in the book contains some useful information about each photographer, but also a great deal of interpretation about what the photograph might mean.

There are also a lot of references to other photographs, or the contact sheets from which the photographs were chosen, none of these are included, so the reader has no way of understanding the selection.

I would have liked more technical information about each photograph, camera, exposure, etc to gain a better understanding of the choices made.

“If someone were to ask me why I’d written what I’d written – I’d explain in a logical coherent manner. I would not display a picture or painting as an answer to the question. Why therefore, should I be obliged to explain why I painted what I painted – or elucidate in words what the painting means? It’s not that one cannot speak about the visual Arts – but the visual Arts should not rely on linguistic concepts in the form of lengthy explanations. The visual Arts are their own explanation. ” ― Ngak'chang Rinpoche, from ‘Tracts of the Sun’