Simply mind-blowing--this book alters our perceptions of what photography was, is, and could be. Albers shakes up old notions of photography by offering a most lucid exploration of practices and discourses past and present that undermine photography's stable definition as well as the conventional embrace of stability.--Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine An ambitious study of the surprising ephemerality of photography. Through eclectic and illuminating case studies, Albers reveals that impermanence is not a glitch or anomaly within the history of the medium, but rather a central part of what photography is.--Catherine Zuromskis, author of Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images
