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Synopsis
"Haunting, cryptic photographs...fire the imagination. The images come with no explanation, only speculation, so we are free to let our minds roam wild." —Miami Herald
The wonderfully diverse images reproduced here include many of transcendent beauty and psychological insight, all with the magical, mysterious charge that comes from speculating on the circumstances in which they were taken. Novelist William Boyd, whose introduction identifies thirteen ways in which to look at photographs, explains: "The anonymous photograph...makes us ask, with new concentration, what it is about a photograph that elevates it above the casual and the banal...why some images move and enthrall and remain in our memories."
The number of collectors of anonymous photographs is growing exponentially. Robert Flynn Johnson has spent more than a decade on a personal journey of discovery through what were previously uncharted waters to find the works reproduced here. Reflecting themes that govern our lives—birth, death, love, war, travel, celebrity—these photographs are pleasurable and poignant, giving insight into the human secrets with which we can all identify. Over 220 illustrations.
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About the Author
Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Review
A book in which every curious, cryptic picture really does tell a story. -- New York Times
Handsome and engaging. -- San Francisco Chronicle
The pictures that tell the most dramatic stories...do so with the visual composure of a Cartier-Bresson. -- Art & Auction
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- PublisherThames & Hudson
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0500285764
- ISBN 13 9780500285763
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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