Edited by Kathy Ryan with support from Times magazine staff members Stacey Baker and Marvin Orellana, "Photographs" looks back at highlights of three decades of photography published in the magazine. Gail Bichler interviewed Ryan about the book on SPD's blog, Grids..

Full Interview: Here.

Kathy Ryan: 

It's a gathering of major photographic talent from the art world to the style world to the journalism world. That's definitely something that I think makes this book singular.

Visually there's a moment [when] a photo seems to transcend the immediacy of its purpose. What gives them staying power and qualified them for this book was that they transcended that moment and that years later those images still had that incredible power.

...Some of the more philosophical, articulate and thoughtful photographers provide some insight into a larger kind of understanding of what photography means [via the words that accompany each photograph].