In Visible Light: Photography and the American Writer, 1840-1940

In this inquiry into the nature of the creative process, Shloss produces a fascinating study of the interrelationship between photography and literature. This book examines the links between Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn, Theodore Dreiser and Alfred Stieglitz, James Agee and Walker Evans, John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange, Norman Mailer and World War II combat photography, among others.