Observations: Essays on Documentary Photography

Number 35 of the Friends of Photography's Untitled series contains nine recent engaging essays by Beaumont Newhall, Bill Jay, Maria Morris Hambourg, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Alan Trachtenberg, Max Kozloff, William S. Johnson, Mark Johnstone, and Estelle Jussim. Each author writes on a different aspect of documentary, from Atget to Evans to Levitt, as well as the photographer's social image (Bill Jay, "The Photographer as Aggressor"), documentary persuasion, and the humanist document.