When I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was most taken with Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography, a collection of photographs that straddle the boundary between real and unreal: staged scenarios that look real, real scenarios that look staged. A couple photos came from this book, and I sought it out once I came home. It chronicles the progression of German invasion of Russia, entirely factually, but the pictures are all of toys: toy soldiers, toy tanks, toy train cars. But in their blurry, black-and-white state, it can be hard to tell. You can tell, but the pictures hover just on the edge of reality. Much like war itself, one suspects. The informational text (by Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury fame) is dry (the quotes from participants are much more interesting), but the pictures are fabulous. I could have pored over this thing all day, had I had the time.