Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Social Ontology of Photography 1
5. Part I. The Document, the Figural, and the Index
6. 1. Photography and Its Truth-Event 25
7. 2. The Political Form of Photography Today 39
8. 3. “Fragment, Experiment, Dissonant Prologue”: Modernism, Realism, and the Photodocument 55
9. 4. Two Models of Labor: Figurality and Nonfigurality in Recent Photography 67
10. Part II. Abstraction, Violation, and Empathy
11. 5. Photography After the Photograph: Event, Archive, and the Nonsymbolic 93
12. 6. Photography, Abstraction, and the Social Production of Space 120
13. 7. Violence, Photography, and the Inhuman 145
14. Conclusion 165
15. Notes 169
16. Bibliography 189
17. Index 201