We offer here a variety of 20th- and 21st-century essays that originally accompanied monographs, portfolios, and other publications. photography. (See also our Catalogue Essays selection; the distinction between these two grows increasingly murky in the last quarter of the 20th century.)

Commissioned variously by publishers and others, they represent appreciations but not always critiques of the works and artists they discuss. We've arranged them in loose thematic clusters, according to the author's last name.

• A. D. Coleman
• Donna-Lee Phillips
• Alfred Stieglitz

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