Caught in the Act: The Photographer in Contemporary Fiction

Barry Munger here collects a series of classic short stories about the hard-boiled photographer--as predatory as the best San Francisco detective, often as classy, and often as troubled. It includes works by V.S. Pritchett, E. Annie Proulx, and Italo Calvino. Also included are Paul Theroux's Greene from Picture Palace and Julio Cortázar's Blow Up, the basis for Antonini's film of the same name.