Burgin was not the first to take this approach but he was amongst a wave of artists that made the 60's synonymous with the term. Another phrase Burgin often is marked with is semiology, which simply refers to the increased use of symbols. This collection spans twenty years of black and white conceptualism mixed with text. The beauty of the photographs is meant to compliment the well-written prose and vice versa. The photos, all of roughly the same size, are dispersed through the book with occasional blank pages or one line of text next to, beneath or over the photo.
Occasional pages are full of text.
Few of the pictures are abstract in and of themselves, others seem awkwardly silent. I enjoy much of what he put in the book, but at times question if he plans the connections between pictures or if the connection is made after the picture has been taken. As one shot was of a statue in Italy and another on the opposite page of a couple in a similar position taken at a later date in another city. I could not help but to ask when and where the connection had been made. As is common with conceptualism, the interest I found in Burgin's work was not in his photos.