Conrad Lashley, Alison Morrison
Pivot of the World provides a powerful, magisterial reinterpretation of photography's place in the postwar 1950s. With elegance and economy, and marshaling a wide and sophisticated range of theories, Blake Stimson recovers a fleeting, fragile, and, until now, forgotten moment when photographs had the capacity to imagine for their viewers a different way of belonging in a world on the verge of nuclear holocaust. His is an ambitious, eye-opening, and relevant book. --Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College, author of Painting on the Left and Diane Arbus: Family Albums