Sophistry by Degrees Author:Robert Starr It all starts with an old black and white photograph-the kind with a fuzzy background, an indistinguishable set of gray squat buildings, and an old black Model T parked against the curb. Maybe because the photographer-whose identity has diffused to oblivion like an early morning mist over a lake-was an amateur; or maybe because he or she adjuste... more »d cumbersome shutter speeds and f-stops so that the middle-aged man leaning against a lamp post beside the car is clearly the subject. Either way, it was an old photograph he found hiding in the middle of a dog-eared library book.« less