Photography theory/ edited by James Elkins - New York: Routledge, 2007. - 470 p.: ill.; 22 cm.

Section 1. Introduction --
Theories of photography : a short history / Sabine T. Kriebel --

Section 2. Starting points --
Conceptual limitations of our reflection on photography : the question of "interdisciplinarity" / Jan Baetens --
After medium specificity Chez Fried : Jeff Wall as a painter; Gerhard Richter as a photographer / Diarmuid Costello --
Following pieces : on performative photography / Margaret Iversen --
Time exposure and snapshot : the photograph as paradox / Thierry de Duve --
Introductory note / Rosalind Krauss --

Section 3. The art seminar. [the participatants were]: Jan Baetens, Diarmuid Costello, James Elkins, Jonathan Friday, Margaret Iverson, Sabine Kriebel, Margaret Olin, Graham Smith, [and] Joel Snyder --

Section 4. Assessments. Michael Leja ; Nancy Shawcross ; Anne Collins Goodyear ; Peggy Ann Kusnerz ; Alan Cohen ; Martin Lefebvre ; David Green ; Sharon Sliwinski ; David Bate ; Abigail Solomon-Godeau ; Michel Frizot ; Geoffrey Batchen ; Johan Swinnen ; Hilde Van Gelder ; David Campany ; Joanna Lowry ; Carol Squiers ; Patrick Maynard ; Vivan Sundaram ; Rosalind Krauss ; Liz Wells ; Beth E. Wilson ; Martin Lister ; Shepherd Steiner ; Alan Trachtenberg ; Victor Burgin ; Joel Snyder --

Section 5. Afterwords --
The trouble with photography / Anne McCauley --
Photographs and fossils / Walter Benn Michaels

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