Rudy Burkhart was a gifted artist: a close and attentive painter of nature scenes and portraits; a maker of short, experimental documentary films that regularly show up on museum film programs. Most of all he was a photographer, and his work, reprinted in Talking Picutres, along with an extended interview with Rudy, is striking and fresh. He photographed artists such as DeKooningand Pollack, New York, London and Naples street scenes in the 30s, 40s and 50s, nudes and landscapes. He deserves to be better known, and so does his book.