All entries are quotations drawn from books, newspapers, and magazines.
Among these quotes are excerpts from Flannery O'Connor, Brassai, Virgil Thomson, David Hockney, and John Updike. Most of the pages in the book remain blank. Throughout the notebook, Gedney includes personal comments with his technical notations. These self-critiques, expressing frustration or pleasure at a particular result, reveal much about his day to day process of working on a project, particularly his method of selecting and printing the Kentucky and India photographs. Gedney also includes quotes among his technical notes, one from Einstein's papers and one from John Szarkowski.