Introduction. Photography's Double Index (A Short History in Three Parts) / Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson
Indexicality and the Concept of Medium Specificity / Mary Ann Doane
Photography. Chance, and The Pencil of Nature / Robin Kelsey
"A better example is a photograph": On the Exemplary Value of Photographs in C. S. Peirce's Reflection on Signs / Francois Brunet
Moon Studies and Star Scratches / Sharon Harper
Pt. 2. History of Photography at Issue
Peter Henry Emerson: The Mechanics of Seeing / Douglas R. Nickel
Camera Lucida: Another Little History of Photography / Geoffrey Batchen
Hashem el Madani Project / Akram Zaatari
Pt. 3. Photography as Totality
Photograph Is Never Alone / Blake Stimson
In the Valley of the Blind / John Tagg
Two Double Negatives / Jose Luis Falconi
topologies / Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault
Overexposure: Thoughts on the Triumph of Photography / Anne McCauley
On the Ruins of Photographic Culture: The Politics of Photographic Form Today / John Roberts
Reading Photographs Iconographically or Ichnographically / Lars Kiel Bertelsen
Molecular Documents: Photography in the Post-Photographic Era, or How Not to Be Trapped into False Dilemmas / Jorge Ribalta
Focus and Cross: Thoughts on the Changing Face of Japanese Contemporary Photography / Eric C. Shiner
Photography Is Over, If You Want It / Eric Rosenberg
Photography as the Medium of Reflection / Bernd Stiegler