When taken literally, a translation of the word 'photograph' means 'written light'. In this book I offer the reader/viewer a collection of 'textual illumination' divided into categories. The accompanying short short-stories-in some cases no more than a few words-are literary counter weights to the visual text. Rather than pretend to be a technophile and focus on how each image came about (aperture setting, focal length, lens type, film, etc.)-which is a conventional means of augmenting photographic images-I borrow instead Roland Barthes' take on photographs, and treat what the camera captured...