Trachtenberg's "Lincoln's Smile" reviewed

From the review of Alan Trachtenberg's Lincoln's Smile, in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Photographs, Trachtenberg writes, elegantly and eloquently, are "not so much a guide to reality as a uniquely modern means of questioning reality." They are locked in an eternal present, where something is always about to happen. Appearing at the intersection of image and speech, photographs present the paradox of "things appearing while disappearing, apprehended just in time, in time" - to "expire into new life."

(via Photo Kaboom)