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Charles Harbutt is a victim of the changing times. Or perhaps more accurately, a harbinger of them for his recent work published as Travelog, shows both the exhilaration and the trials of a photojournalist set loose to find himself...
...Travelog is the apotheosis of this of this strange melange of literary and visual expression. There are two more or less "traditional" modes of organizing a book of photographs. One is essentially no organization at all; the book is seen as a cheap way to mass-produce or distribute a portfolio or exhibition of individual images. The other is a careful, but more or less unstated juxtaposition of images--as in Robert Frank's seminal The Americans--or of images and writing--as in Lyon's Conversations with the Dead--which produce a mosaic image more profound that...
...Travelog: He began confidingly...
HOLLYWOOD THROUGH THE BACK DOOR - E. Nils Holstius - Longmans, Green ($2.50). Open-mouthed travelog of an English gramophone executive who tried to crash Hollywood as a scenarist, sometimes roamed Los Angeles disguised as a bum; told with minute, deadly earnestness as if he were the first white man to see the place...
Thoreau-like Captain Doughty. Quietly, competently written, the result is a sea story consisting of gently anarchistic philosophizing, exact descriptions, a travelog plot, the flavor but not the vitality of Tomlinson's best books, Gallions Reach and The Sea and the Jungle...