Photography, Narrative, Time

'For anyone interested in more than photography – particularly in comprehending its strange hold over us as an activity both for taking and viewing images – this absorbing book will both expand your understanding of the medium and provide you with fresh insights from latest research'

-- The Sydney Morning Herald, Simon Weaving

'Battye has provided the photographic art or craft (or both) with staunch intellectual support, offering convincing evidence or the photo’s ability to imply much more than initially meets the eye.'

-- Art in America, Robert J. Seidman

Battye’s great accomplishment in this volume is certainly the theoretically sound location of photographs within a theoretical framework of narrative.'

-- Heike Polster, Kronoscope

Greg Battye’s timely new book provides a concise and insightful over- view of Anglophone theoretical writing about still photography. He is sensitive to the many different kinds of photograph and to the ‘discourses’ that envelop them in today’s academy, but he is as refreshingly enthusiastic about everyday snap-shots and ephemera as he is about more deliberate, professional image- making.'

-- John A Bateman, Visual Communica