The retrospective monograph published for a major travelling exhibition organised by the Akron Art Museum, which opened in San Francisco and went on to Oklahoma, Washington, D.C., Newport Beach, California, and Akron, Ohio. The essays read the work from several sides: "Fiction as a higher truth" by the editor, "Seeing the unseen, saying the unsayable" by David L. Jacobs, a text by Van Deren Coke, his first photography teacher and mentor at the Lexington Camera Club, and "Remembering Gene Meatyard" by his friend Wendell Berry. The plates are joined by a chronology, a list of exhibitions and a bibliography.