This is a lovely, moving piece of radio. Martha Solomon, a budding documentary filmmaker, tells of her explorations into the life and work of her late father, a photographer who died when she was a baby. (Interview tape from Ms. Solomon serves as the story's narration, accompanied off and on by gentle, unobtrusive music. The producer, Kent Hoffman, does not appear.) Solomon examines favorite photographs taken by her father, interviews her mother and others about him, and reads letters written about her father by other photographers that he influenced. It's a piece about
paying attention, about being quiet and attentive and really seeing. And without needing to say so, the piece is about hearing, too. It displays the kind of quiet, respectful attention that it celebrates in the work of the late photographer and his reflective daughter. Would work nicely on a weekend program.