Perhaps to close a recent string of links to interesting items on photography, which began here, continued here and here, and then extended just a bit here, there is an item in the Photo Booth feature on The New Yorker‘s website that:

asked Lyle Rexer which five photography books he would want to be stranded on a desert island with. Lyle is a photo critic, curator, teacher, and author of numerous books about photography, so I had a feeling he would take the challenge seriously. My suspicions were confirmed when, after three hours in our library, he was still deliberating. Knowing Lyle’s selections and his reasons for making them, I would gladly trade one of my five desert island photo books for a volume of Lyle’s photo criticism.

Click the image to above to go to the International Center of Photography’s website; they carry one of the choices mentioned in Rexer’s response.

The item continues as follows, making it worth the click to see the choices:

Here’s what Lyle had to share:

The game has two limits/rules/metaphors: the library and the desert island…