John interviewed over 40 of the great American photographers from 1995 through 2007.

He was one of only two American photographers to capture the attack on camera.

American photographers have not generally had much truck with myth.

He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers."

The 119 works by 13 American photographers are mostly black and white and were taken from the early 1920's to the present.

He was the American photographer who first made night a symbol, an existential condition.

As one of the first American photographers to use flash, he is also considered a pioneer in photo journalism.

The trade magazine American Photographer devoted an entire issue to him in 1982.

He was the only well known indigenous Latin American photographer of his time.

He was one of the first major indigenous Latin American photographers.