J. J. Long is Professor of German at Durham University. He is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard and of W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity, and has published widely on German literature and photography. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005. Andrea Noble is Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University, author of Mexican National Cinema and co-editor of Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative. Edward Welch is Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University, and author of François Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual. His research interests include post-war French visual culture and documentary photography, and he is a regular contributor to Source photography journal.
List of Figures Introduction A Small History of Photography Studies Edward
Welch and J. J. Long 1. Mindless Photography John Tagg 2. Thinking
Photography beyond the Visual? Elizabeth Edwards 3. On Snapshot
Photography: Rethinking Photographic Power In Public And Private Spheres
Catherine Zuromskis 4. Family Photography and the Global Drama of Human
Rights Andrea Noble 5. Dreams of Ordinary Life: Cartes-De-Visite and the
Bourgeois Imagination Geoffrey Batchen 6. Race and Reproduction in Camera
Lucida Shawn Michelle Smith 7. Benjamin, Atget, and the 'Readymade'
Politics of Postmodern Photography Studies Kelly Dennis 8. Being Exposed:
Thinking Photography and Community in Spencer Tunick's Naked World Through
the Lens of Jean-Luc Nancy Louis Kaplan 9. 'And in This Fairy World of
Labour See A Type Of What The Actual World Should Be': Plato's Dilemma
Donald Preziosi Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index