Photographs made especially for this book—a continuation of Chiarenza's examination of the metaphorical possibilities of photography.

“What is here cannot be said. . . Calm, harmonious retreats. Silent, yet swollen with sound.”

CARL CHIARENZA, artist, art historian, and critic, is Artist-in-Residence and and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Rochester. His photographs have been seen in 78 one-person and over 240 group exhibitions since 1957. His work is in over 35 museum collections in the United States, France, and Japan. Chiarenza’s previous books are: Chiarenza: Landscapes of the Mind (1988), and Chiarenza: Evocations (2002); he is the author of Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors (1982).

Chiarenza has lectured and taught workshops at over 90 institutions in 30 states since 1973. He taught art history at Boston University from 1963 to 1986 and taught his first history of photography course there in 1964. He taught art history at the University of Rochester from 1986 to 1999.