Who Cares About Books?
DARIUS HIMES

This essay examines our current obsession with photography books by first looking at the cultural role that books in general play. At a time when the phrase, "I want a book of my photographs" is on the lips of every aspiring and established photographer, Himes takes a studied look at the historical relevance of the book as both object and conveyor of knowledge as well as the integral role that books, and by implication the printed page, have played since the dawn of photography.