Soulmaker

"Quite clearly this is a book that knows its larger context, that seeks to step beyond Roland Barthes and take the discussion of documentary off to a different, and metaphysical level. In many ways Soulmaker is audacious; it is also brilliant, itself possessed of the fire that repeatedly flares on its pages."--Molly Nesbit, Vassar College"A beautiful book by one of the most attuned critics of our time, Soulmaker demonstrates a mystical and powerfully truthful capacity to see the special illuminations of Lewis Hine's work. Nemerov is not afraid to say that the capacity is mystical, so it becomes a challenge for the contemporary reader to be taught how to see a photograph's different sense of time and space, the eeriness and also the tender particularity of the moment it makes for its subject and for us."--Elisa Tamarkin, University of California, Berkeley