Michele M. Penhall, ed. Desire for magic : Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008. Albuquerque, N,M.: University of New Mexico Art Museum, 2010. Print.

This distinctive monograph designed by Christopher Kaltenbach is the first publication to survey the major photographic campaigns Patrick Nagatani (b. 1945) has completed during his long and still unfolding career.

Included are seven essays by distinguished scholars addressing Nagatani’s projects from unique critical perspectives, a comprehensive bibliography and exhibition record, and previously unpublished texts significant to particular series of works. The publication is lavishly illustrated with one hundred twenty-two color plates and five gate folds providing the reader the opportunity to see the breadth and range of Nagatani’s work in color and to see into the elaborately constructed worlds of his imagination.