Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1982. Minor secondhand wear to cover extremities, spine lightly creased.

Picasso declared that every photographer wanted to be a painter. But what is certainly true is that many artists - painters, sculptors and others - have been committed photographers. Marina Vaizey traces this special aspect of the interrelationship between art and photography. In 5 chapters the author gives valuable insight into the influential interdependence of art and photography, discussing those artists - and their work - who have been active photographers, for whatever reasons, not content simply to use other people's photographs but pursuing their visual interests as far as to becoming photographers themselves. The book also contains a wealth of photographs taken by artists, starting from the beginning of photography, and examples of those artists work to illustrate the relationship between camera and canvas, the influence of photography on art.