# Why Photography Matters

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- Book: [Why Photography Matters](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-l-thompson/why-photography-matters) ([Why Photography Matters.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-l-thompson/why-photography-matters.md))
- Authors: [Jerry L. Thompson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-l-thompson)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6252-901-3
- Pages: 98
- Published: 2015-11-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts. Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works—not only as an artistic medium but...