Photographic love is a promiscuous business. A great painting will catch you and hold you, demanding a certain exclusivity. Whatever the size of your appetite walking into a museum, you aren’t likely to really absorb more than a handful of great paintings at a time, if that. But great photographs stimulate more often than they satiate, perhaps because the eye recognizes, in a photograph, one piece of a larger picture: one face in a crowd, one moment in a day, one shot on a roll. Instinctively driven to make sense of what it’s looking at, to grasp as much of the larger picture as possible, the mind stays hungry. The consumption of photographs being virtually effortless, it quickly escalates to compulsion, which is one reason a book of photos can be so much more satisfying than an exhibition. If one photograph is good, more is usually better. A whole stack of them drawn together in one neatly bound package you can hold on your lap, make a cup of tea and get lost in is... More >>>