Dora Garcia’s work represents a subtle, self-reflective approach to photography’s connection with transience. The title of her show, taken from an inscription found on some of Atget’s photographs, emphasizes this: “Va a desaparecer” (It will disappear) can be taken, in effect, to be the dictum of all photography. It is in the nature of the medium to announce that something that once existed was destined to fade into nothingness—and that becomes more patent the more it distances itself from any artistic pretension. When, as in this case, the effort is to photograph the very nature of the