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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
The Nineteenth Century in Europe
On the Daguerrotype / Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2
A Lady Photographer who Never Photographs Men / Alice Hughes 3
Annals of My Glass House / Julia Margaret Cameron 8
Photography During the July Monarchy 1830-1848 / Gisele Freund 14
The Camera Against the Paris Commune / Gen Doy 21
Extending the Grand Tour / Maria Morris Hambourg 32
Tracing Nadar / Rosalind Krauss 37
New Visions - The Avant-Gardes and After
Germany: The Weimar Republic / Ute Eskildsen 53
Photomontage Varvara Stepanova 64
The Supremacy of the Message - Dada / Dawn Ades 66
A Hundred Years of Photography / Lucia Moholy 70
I Worked with Man Ray / Lee Miller 74
The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism / Rosalind Krauss 76
A Mutable Mirror: Claude Cahun / Therese Lichtenstein 91
The Armed Vision Disarmed - Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style / Abigail Solomon-Godeau 96
Distant Voices: Fashion and Portraiture in the Studio in the Inter-War Years
Olive Edis: Photography, 1914 119
Exhibitions and Commercial Work / Madame Yevonde 121
In Pursuit of Perfection / Dorothy Wilding 125
Early Years / Louise Dahl-Wolfe 127
Pictures and Stories: Documentary and Reportage in North America
Life Begins / Margaret Bourke-White 133
Looking at Life / Carol Squiers 140
The Assignment I'll Never Forget / Dorothea Lange 151
A Crisis in the Intimate / Andrea FIsher 161
One Time, One Place / Eudora Welty 165
The Photo League / Anne Tucker 165
Documentary Photography / Elizabeth McCausland 170
The Politics of Photography / Jo Spence 174
The Seige of St Malo / Lee Miller 178
Star Wars: The Photography as Polemicist in Vietnam / Jan Zita Grover 185
History Lessons
Photography at the Crossroads / Berenice Abbott 203
What Shall We Tell the Children? Photography and Its Text (Books) / Mary Warner Marien 207
Crowned with Thorns: Creative Camera 1965-1978 / Val Williams 223
On Photography / Susan Sontag 230
On Photographers
What Becomes a Legend Most: The Short, Sad Career of Diane Arbus / Catherine Lord 237
Tina Modotti: Letters to Edward Weston / Amy Rule 251
On Photography / Tina Modotti 260
Re-reading Edward Weston - Feminism, Photography and Psychoanalysis / Roberta McGrath 261
Ansel Adams: The Eloquent Light / Nancy Newhall 270
Good Intentions / Ingrid Sischy 272
Witkin's Others / Cynthia Chris 283
The Other Side / Nan Goldin 291
Time Exposure: The Photographs of Patrick Faigenbaum / Lauren Sedofsky 295
Cindy Sherman: Burning Down the House / Jan Avgikos 300
Postmodernisms and the Politics of Looking
Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art Photography and Postmodernism / Abigail Solomon-Godeau 307
Two Types of Photography Criticism Located in Relation to Lynn Silverman's Series / Meaghan Morris 319
Of Mother Nature and Marlboro Men: An Inquiry into the Cultural Meanings of Landscape Photography / Deborah Bright 333
Dykes in Context: Some Problems in Minority Representation / Jan Zita Grover 348
Dialogue with Spectatorship: Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin / Laura Mulvey 377
Between Frames / Susan Butler 386
The Pleasure of the Phototext / Jane Gallop 394
Interview: Fetishism of Black-and-White and the Vulgarity of Colour 403
Decolonizing the Image
Partial Recall / Lucy Lippard 413
The Unveiled: Algerian Women / Carole Naggar 422
Essential Differences, Photographs of Mexican Women / Coco Fusco 434
A Strategy of Appearances - The Australian Bicentenary / Anne-Marie Willis 442
Showing Our Faces - A Century of Black Women Photographed / Jewelle Gomez 448
Memories and Fictions
Gateway to a Labyrinth / Liz Heron 457
Isak Dinesen and Photo/Graphic Recollection / Susan H. Aiken 460
Remembrance / Annette Kuhn 471
Notes 479
Additional Notes on the Contributors 513
Copyrights and Permissions 518