Transforming Images: How Photography Complicates the Picture, by Barbara E. Savedoff. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000, 233 pp., $35.00 hardcover.

by Aphrodite Désirée Navab

The very title of Barbara Savedoff's book invites us on a journey into photography's multiple roles. Photographic images transform their subjects at the same time that they themselves are the results of transformations. They also complicate comfortable distinctions between fact and fiction because the world from which they come is complicated.