“…photographs that transform our physical world into moments of clarity and brightness unique to the medium…amazingly leaves the reader hungry for more…” – Library Journal
"...Trager proves himself to be among the great photographers of this much-photographed city...these pictures stand out. Beauty and history work hand in hand..." – Art on Paper
"...the place-portraiture of Philip Trager's Palladian villas...as beautiful, it seems to me, as any photographs I have ever seen." – Peter Schjeldahl, Introduction to Legacy of Light