Departures and Arrivals, photos by Charles Harbutt, 2012

“Yo has an uncanny ability to see a picture, going past subject matter, past content, past design to grasp the visceral thrust of an image. Watching her do a layout is like seeing a great jazz musician playing: trying this, trying that, laughing at a joke, then snatching a perfect pair and moving it to the  end of her long work table to join other pairs and eventually to be melded into a riff, a sequence and the book.”

—Charles Harbutt on Yolanda Cuoma, art director and curatorial voice behind some of the 20th century’s greatest photographic books, including his own. This year, Cuomo co-curated the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Va., June 13 – 15, 2013.

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