The book’s design is important ... issue, with the headline “Family Album.” Dolly Parton’s Quietly Inspiring Defense of Marriage The death of Parton’s husband, in March, called rare ...

Or at least that was what I thought when, as a child, I’d page through the family photo albums at her home ... Only now is it clear to me that those books provided an early visual literacy ...

Sometimes, the thick family albums kept amid the books peeped from the shelves. The albums were myriad; their presentation of photos changing with their physical form. Some were elaborate ...