PhotoGraphic Encounters: The Edges and Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions (University of Alberta Press and the Kamloops Art Gallery) contains much promise of “edginess” and “subversion,” once the great virtues of the postmodern age (which surely is over by now) and now the empty jargon of art critics. The book is evidence of the great wall dividing the Art World from the world.