STEPHEN BULL is a writer and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Photography (2010) and Photography and Celebrity (2021, forthcoming) and since 1995 has been a regular contributor to books, conferences, and journals including Source: The Photographic Review. He has exhibited as an artist at venues such as Tate Britain and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, and has published photobooks including Meeting Hazel Stokes (2006). He has run courses at Tate Modern and is the host of the Photoworks talks series, Desert Island Pics.

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• List of Figures ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xvii1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century 1Stephen BullPart I Themes 92 Histories 11Sabine T. Kriebel3 Locating Photography 29Christopher Pinney4 The Participation of Time in Photography 49Anthony Luvera5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory 61Martha Langford6 The Indexical Imagination 85David Bate7 The Thingness of Photographs 97Elizabeth Edwards8 Beyond Representation?: The Database‐driven Image and the Non‐human Spectator 113Katrina SluisPart II Interpretation 1319 Semiotics 133Paul Cobley and David Machin10 A Culture of Texts 155Matthew Lindsey11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman 173Kathy Kubicki12 Reviewing the Gaze 189Roberta McGrathPart III Markets 20913 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street 211Annebella Pollen14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation 237Malcolm Barnard15 Fashion’s Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph 253Karen de Perthuis16 Value Systems in Photography 275Francis HodgsonPart IV Popular Photography 28917 Snapshot Photography: History, Theory, Practice, and Esthetics 291Catherine Zuromskis18 Mobile Photography 307Rachel K. Gillies19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography 329Stephen Bull20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday 351Clare GallagherPart V Documents 36921 “Things as they are”: The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary 371Ian Walker22 Citizens’ Photojournalism: History’s New First Draft 393David Brittain23 Seeing is not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images 411Edward Dowsett24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, Seen Through the Prism of the LIFE World Library 429Val WilliamsPart VI Art 43725 Photography’s Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities 439Sarah E. James26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture 465David Campbell and Mark Durden27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography’s Potential as Contemporary Art 483Hilde Van Gelder28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art 501Fergus HeronIndex 527

STEPHEN BULL is a writer and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Photography (2010) and Photography and Celebrity (2021, forthcoming) and since 1995 has been a regular contributor to books, conferences, and journals including Source: The Photographic Review. He has exhibited as an artist at venues such as Tate Britain and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, and has published photobooks including Meeting Hazel Stokes (2006). He has run courses at Tate Modern and is the host of the Photoworks talks series, Desert Island Pics.

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• List of Figures ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xvii1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century 1Stephen BullPart I Themes 92 Histories 11Sabine T. Kriebel3 Locating Photography 29Christopher Pinney4 The Participation of Time in Photography 49Anthony Luvera5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory 61Martha Langford6 The Indexical Imagination 85David Bate7 The Thingness of Photographs 97Elizabeth Edwards8 Beyond Representation?: The Database‐driven Image and the Non‐human Spectator 113Katrina SluisPart II Interpretation 1319 Semiotics 133Paul Cobley and David Machin10 A Culture of Texts 155Matthew Lindsey11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman 173Kathy Kubicki12 Reviewing the Gaze 189Roberta McGrathPart III Markets 20913 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street 211Annebella Pollen14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation 237Malcolm Barnard15 Fashion’s Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph 253Karen de Perthuis16 Value Systems in Photography 275Francis HodgsonPart IV Popular Photography 28917 Snapshot Photography: History, Theory, Practice, and Esthetics 291Catherine Zuromskis18 Mobile Photography 307Rachel K. Gillies19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography 329Stephen Bull20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday 351Clare GallagherPart V Documents 36921 “Things as they are”: The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary 371Ian Walker22 Citizens’ Photojournalism: History’s New First Draft 393David Brittain23 Seeing is not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images 411Edward Dowsett24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, Seen Through the Prism of the LIFE World Library 429Val WilliamsPart VI Art 43725 Photography’s Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities 439Sarah E. James26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture 465David Campbell and Mark Durden27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography’s Potential as Contemporary Art 483Hilde Van Gelder28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art 501Fergus HeronIndex 527

STEPHEN BULL is a writer and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton. He is the author of Photography (2010) and Photography and Celebrity (2021, forthcoming) and since 1995 has been a regular contributor to books, conferences, and journals including Source: The Photographic Review. He has exhibited as an artist at venues such as Tate Britain and the Pingyao International Photography Festival, and has published photobooks including Meeting Hazel Stokes (2006). He has run courses at Tate Modern and is the host of the Photoworks talks series, Desert Island Pics.

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• List of Figures ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xvii1 Introduction: Photography in the Twenty‐first Century 1Stephen BullPart I Themes 92 Histories 11Sabine T. Kriebel3 Locating Photography 29Christopher Pinney4 The Participation of Time in Photography 49Anthony Luvera5 Photographic Acts and Arts of Memory 61Martha Langford6 The Indexical Imagination 85David Bate7 The Thingness of Photographs 97Elizabeth Edwards8 Beyond Representation?: The Database‐driven Image and the Non‐human Spectator 113Katrina SluisPart II Interpretation 1319 Semiotics 133Paul Cobley and David Machin10 A Culture of Texts 155Matthew Lindsey11 Psychoanalysis and Photography: Mary Kelly and Cindy Sherman 173Kathy Kubicki12 Reviewing the Gaze 189Roberta McGrathPart III Markets 20913 Marketing Photography: Selling Popular Photography on the British High Street 211Annebella Pollen14 Advertising and Photography: Rhetoric and Representation 237Malcolm Barnard15 Fashion’s Image: The Complex World of the Fashion Photograph 253Karen de Perthuis16 Value Systems in Photography 275Francis HodgsonPart IV Popular Photography 28917 Snapshot Photography: History, Theory, Practice, and Esthetics 291Catherine Zuromskis18 Mobile Photography 307Rachel K. Gillies19 Famous for a Fifteenth of a Second: Andy Warhol, Celebrity, and Fan Photography 329Stephen Bull20 Boring Pictures: Photography as Art of the Everyday 351Clare GallagherPart V Documents 36921 “Things as they are”: The Problematic Possibilities of Documentary 371Ian Walker22 Citizens’ Photojournalism: History’s New First Draft 393David Brittain23 Seeing is not Believing: On the Irrelevance of Looking in the Age of Operational Images 411Edward Dowsett24 Travel Books, Photography, and National Identity in the 1950s and 1960s, Seen Through the Prism of the LIFE World Library 429Val WilliamsPart VI Art 43725 Photography’s Conflicting Modernisms and Modernities 439Sarah E. James26 Spectacle and Anti‐spectacle: American Art Photography and Consumer Culture 465David Campbell and Mark Durden27 What Can Photography Do?: Considerations on Photography’s Potential as Contemporary Art 483Hilde Van Gelder28 Practicing Desires: Authorship in Contemporary Photographic Art 501Fergus HeronIndex 527