Stoumen, Lou. Can't Argue With Sunrise: A Paper Movie by Lou Stoumen.

Hand Press/Celestial Arts, 1975. First edition, first printing. Wraps with custom-made, 4-mil polyester jacket.  Like new, has not been fully opened. 191 pages with black and white photographs and autobiographical text on facing pages. Louis Clyde Stoumen, known as Lou Stoumen (1917–1991), was an American photographer, film director and producer. He won two Academy Awards; the first in 1957 for Best Documentary Short Subject, and the second in 1963 for Best Documentary Feature.  He worked as a freelance photographer and photojournalist in New York. After his death in 1991, the Stoumen Estate gifted the entire archive of Stoumen's work, including copyright, to the Museum of Photographic Arts.  Summary:

Can’t Argue With Sunrise: A Paper Movie by Lou Stoumen is a visual narrative that blends photography, design, and cinematic thinking into a book-length sequence of images. Rather than following a traditional written storyline, the work unfolds through photographs arranged to suggest motion, rhythm, and emotional progression—what Stoumen calls a “paper movie.”

The images depict everyday moments, landscapes, and human gestures, often quiet and fleeting, inviting readers to experience time passing as they would in a film. Through careful sequencing, repetition, and contrast, Stoumen creates connections between images that evoke memory, contemplation, and the poetry of ordinary life. The absence of explanatory text encourages viewers to construct their own meanings and narratives.

Overall, the book explores the relationship between still photography and cinema, demonstrating how photographs can suggest movement and story when thoughtfully arranged. Can’t Argue With Sunrise stands as an experimental and meditative work that emphasizes visual storytelling and the emotional power of images over explicit explanation.