(...) Ackerman explains, with the directness that makes him his own best commentator: »I think that the need to photograph comes from the need to hold on to what’s most important to you. You live with an awareness that’s everything’s going to go away and that the things that most powerfully move you are the ephemeral. It seems natural that if photography can do anything, it can somehow get at that - remind you of what you felt.« (...) When I pointed out that this was quite a remarkable transfor