This superlative volume is an intelligent, informed and lively retrospective of portrait photography over the past century. Author Max Kozloff, one of the world’s leading photography critics, has selected over 300 arresting colour and black-and-white images to represent the genre. He examines the personalities and temperaments behind and before the camera, and the curious relationship between photographer and subject. The role of the photographer as historian and witness is also explored – the ability to store a moment in time as evidence for future audiences, or to explore a new way of seeing things via the photographer’s vision. A range of styles and movements are featured and discussed, including works by Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Cindy Sherman, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. An outstanding achievement.