The Waters of Our Time’s imitation of its source positions it as a wannabe companion piece, an aspiring equal, intended to stand beside The Sweet Flypaper of Life and get compared to it. Arrogant, to say the least, and an unwise wager to boot, because it simply doesn’t resonate (for me, in any case) in the way that the DeCarava-Hughes classic did and still does. […]
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To give just a hint of the collection’s scope, of the key photobooks listed in The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, edited by Andrew Roth, the Teti Collection has 50. That alone makes it a destination resource for researchers. […] In the half-century of its existence SPE transformed itself from its original form as an unofficial, photo-specific splinter division of the College Art Association into something akin to photography’s equivalent of the Audubon Society: $20 plus an interest in birds gets you in — and they’ll waive the interest in birds. […] Kershaw in this 1984 book reproduces the first nine of Capa’s ten Omaha Beach 35mm images, commenting on each one in turn. Unfortunately, those annotations do not reflect well on Kershaw’s knowledge of photography or military equipment, nor on his ability to pay close attention to the evidentiary data encoded in photographs. […] |
 SPJ Research Award 2014 |