Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the Author -- Chapter 2: Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah Canyonlands -- Chapter 3: "Watch How Dem Touris' Like Fe Look": Tourist Photography and Claude McKay's Jamaica -- Chapter 4: Captured Things: Man Ray's Object Photography -- Chapter 5: Photography's Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff's Here Comes the New Photographer! -- Chapter 6: The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- Chapter 7: Playing Doll -- Chapter 8: Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy Debord -- Chapter 9: The Generation of Postmemory -- Chapter 10: Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing's Visual Practice -- Chapter 11: Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald's Albums and the Aesthetics of Photographic Exchange -- Chapter 12: Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.