NYRB: "Not long ago, photographers were happy with books that were really just containers--one image per page, surrounded by white to assert that it was art. Their struggle for acceptance as artists had led, especially in America, to the purism of Szarkowski's dictum 'Try to say it all in one picture,' which prized consistency of emotional temperature, image size, aspect ratio, clarity, and nearness to subject, mistrusted mixing black and white with color, and marshaled what text it allowed into dull parades of nearly identical pages"
"Gradually, though, that severity has waned, and many now cluster and chop up their images without hesitation. The colors and finishes of papers are myriad and delicious; one sees typefaces of mixed design, size, and weight, hand-drawn sketches, washi and translucent barriers, gatefolds, leporellos, tip-ins, exquisite Japanese bindings, and [...] exotic printing" (i.e. silver ink on black stock)
maybe apt for "What is happening" question for 3314 students, especially when paired with this:
"Recently, the much-loved curator Susan Kismaric asked me bitterly if photographers no longer believed in photography. Why did so many complicate their books with words now, and sumptusois design?"