"I never set out to photograph a sociological cross section of ages or types of people—I photographed people that I knew or that I came across in the daily round." That's Myers' understated description of Images that have increased In significance with time, capturing ordinary people in ordinary settings with extraordinary insight, precision and empathy.

The famous collection of Japanese supernatural tales by Lafcadio Heam has beguiled readers since its 1903 publication, but Hiroshi Watanabe's haunting images—a collaboration of kindred spirits working in different mediums and separated by more than a century—mark the first photographic interpretation of this literary classic.

While there are phone apps that simulate the wet plate collodion look, there's no substitute for the real, analog, labor-of-love thing. Jody Ake Is one of the foremost contemporary practitioners of this process invented some 170 years ago. His wet plate portraits and still life’s resonate with a rare level of craft, finding beauty and mystery In decay.