Inside the Photograph by Peter C. Bunnell

Peter C. Bunnell has been a major force in shaping the discourse about photography's past and present. during his thirty-some years as a profoundly influential professor and curator at Princeton University. Most of the thirty-four essays are devoted to individual (predominantly American) photographers, with the balance written about three key galleries that played a crucial early role in the recognition and marketing of modern photography.  Bunnell has sustained deep and mutually respectful relationships with photographers ranging from Minor White to Ruth Bernhard, Aaron Siskind, and Jerry Uelsmann. His understanding of their work and clear-eyed grasp of twentieth-century photography makes this an enlightening overview of a field that has undergone extraordinary changes during the period chronicled in the book. Bunnell offers a unique personal perspective on the world of art photography as it morphed from a small group of practitioners whose work was collected by an even smalle Show More