Anonymous, jacket
anonymous: enigmatic images
from unknown photographers
by Robert Flynn Johnson
introduction William Boyd

Thames & Hudson 2004
250 × 247mm 208pp

Robert Flynn Johnson, the Curator in Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Museum of San Francisco, scours the world collecting photos that are rare and commonplace, weird and wonderful all taken by anonymous photographers. A pile of images in no particular order was the starting point for this extraordinary book. Working closely with the legendary Constance Kaine, I set about the task of putting them into an order to tell a bigger story. The author was kind enough to write in the book a special note thanking me ...for my dynamic and creative design and layout of this volume. Working with Constance Kaine he has taken a large group of fascinating and disparate images and fashioned them into a flowing and unified whole.'