Writing Pictures: Case Studies in Photographic Criticism 1983–2012 (2013) gathers thirty years of James R. Hugunin's photographic art criticism into one volume. It opens in the year he was named the first recipient of the Reva and David Logan Award for Distinguished New Writing in Photography, jointly funded by Boston's Photographic Resource Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Opening with an introduction by Hugunin himself, the case studies collected here run from that year forward: close readings of individual photographers and bodies of work, illustrated throughout with photographs by contemporary makers, written in the post-structuralist critical lineage Hugunin carried out of Afterimage and Artweek.

It sits with Hugunin's other criticism for the press, Afterimage and Wreck and Ruin.