21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Volume One, Culture and Criticism

Brewster, MA: Leo & Wolfe Photography, 1998. Hardcover. VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on first page. Stamp on last page. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page. Stamps on top and bottom text blocks.. A gray clothbound hardcover book with the tithe in debossed text down the spine. Pages: (10), 1-216. Pofusely illustrated with black-and-white images. Contents are as follows: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre / Leonard Baskin -- 21st : a statement from the editor and publisher / John Wood and Steven Albahari -- Icons / Richard Wilbur -- Note on the earliest (truncated) photographs / Leonard Baskin -- Transcendent vision : four metaphysical photographers / John Wood -- Real pictures of the real world / Frederick Turner -- Race and contemporary photography : Willie Robert Middlebrook and the legacy of Frederick Douglass / John Stauffer -- Zooming backward into the future : photo-alchemy in the latter part of the twentieth century / John Bennette -- Thoughts on late twentieth-century daguerreotypy / Christopher Mahoney -- Scrying Xanadu / John Stilgoe -- Toward some future history of photography, 1965-2000, part 1 / A.D. Coleman -- Myths, dreams & realities : contemporary Argentine photography / Anne W. Tucker -- Vision is the perfection / Paul Zimmer -- Dr. Duanus's infernal tongue-in-cheek journal / Duane Michals -- "JFK secretly advises Bill Clinton on Lewinsky affair" / Robert Olen Butler -- Driftwood table / Morri Creech -- Snapshot / Raúl Peschiera -- Three photographic visions of Halley's Comet / Kevin Meaux -- St. Isidore's almanac : an excerpt from a novel / Amy Fleury -- Fates' valentine : Holly Wright's unavoidable resonance / Ann Beattie -- Conversation between Ann Beattie and Holly Wright -- Olivia Parker's photographs of the real / Daile Kaplan -- Jock Sturges and the recovery of the beautiful / Dana Gioia -- Time lines / Thomas W. Southall -- 21st discoveries : Gary Bacon and John Lofaso: cool and zany eyes / John Wood -- Year's 21 best books / Rixon Reed -- When we go beyond the eye, to the hand / John Stevenson -- Cindy and me : notes for an auctioneer's memoir / Denise Bethel -- Artifice as artifact : the work of Sandy Skoglund / Lance Speer -- Filming / R.S. Thomas. (Inventory #: 203443)