John Berger & Jean Mohr. 
 
Pantheon: 1982. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Square octavo. Small tears and chipping along the top and bottom of the jacket. Mid-sized tear on the top corner of back panel. Significant chipping along the bottom of the front board. Wrinkling on the crown of the spine. A remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block and a couple of small stains on the edges as well, but other than that the text block is clean. 299 pages. Very good. 
 
So much starts from Berger's straightforward questions about the art form of the twentieth century, such as: exactly how and why do photographs move us? Another Way attempts to lay the groundwork for a new theory of photography, past the landmarks of Benjamin, Sontag, and Barthes. Its main story, told in photographs, is about a fictional peasant woman in an aesthetic attempt to go beyond reportage or film montage. Theory, image, story, memoir, essays - there isn't much this book isn't, and the multiply talented Berger and Mohr make sure the quality of expression and insight remains incredibly high. 
 
"Photographs quote from appearance and expressiveness is achieved by what we have termed the long quotation."