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Photography is omnipresent; everyone is photographing everything. How do artists and writers reconcile this voracious urge to photograph with a photographic aesthetic and methodology that has tended to value less is more? One pairs artists and writers to think about this question. Eight photographersMarco Breuer, Thomas Joshua Cooper, John Gossage, Trevor Paglen, Alison Rossiter, Victoria Sambunaris, Rebecca Norris Webb and James Wellingwere asked to submit one image on the theme of minimalism. Eight writersDavid Campany, Teju Cole, Christie Davis, John DAgata, Michael Fried, Darius Himes, Leah Ollman and Laura Stewardwere enlisted to respond to those submissions, each paired with a specific image. The results offer a probing assessment of Antoine de Saint-Exuperys maxim: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.