Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-280) and index.

Introduction / Alex Hughes and Andrea Noble -- Ch. 1. Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art: Gender as an Idiom of Memorialization / Marianne Hirsch -- Ch. 2. Narratives of Place: History and Memory and the Evidential Force of Photography in Work by Meridel Rubenstein and Joan Myers / Judith Fryer Davidov -- Ch. 3. Still Moving Images: Photographs of the Disappeared in Films about the "Dirty War" in Argentina / Catherine Grant -- Ch. 4. Image - Memory - Text / Nancy Shawcross -- Ch. 5. Nan Goldin: Bohemian Ballads / Chris Townsend -- Ch. 6. (Con)text and Image: Reframing Man Ray's Noire et blanche / Wendy Grossman -- Ch. 7. Gender in the Archive: Maria Zavala and the Drama of (not) Looking / Andrea Noble -- Ch. 8. Humanism Reimagined: Spain as a Photographic Subject in W. Eugene Smith's "Spanish Village" (1951) and Cristina Garcia Rodero's Espana oculta (1989) / John D. Perivolaris -- Ch. 9. Herve Guibert's Photographic Autobiography: Self-Portraiture in L'Image fantome / Alex Hughes -- Ch. 10. Sophie Calle's Des histoires vraies: Irony and Beyond / Johnnie Gratton -- Ch. 11. "Neither an Odyssey nor a Testament": Drifting with Jacques Derrida and Catherine Malabou / Marie-Claire Barnet -- Ch. 12. In the Spiral of Time: Memory, Temporality, and Subjectivity in Chris Marker's La Jetee / Jon Kear -- Ch. 13. Talking through the "Fotygraft Album" / Elizabeth Siegel -- Ch. 14. The "Eyes of Affection" and Fashionable Femininity: Representations of Photography in Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Victorian "Society" Albums / Patrizia Di Bello.