Before-and-After Photography

Jordan Bear is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, Canada. Kate Palmer Albers is Assistant Professor in the Art History Division at the University of Arizona, USA.

• 1. Photography's Time Zones Kate Palmer Albers, University of Arizona, USA and Jordan Bear, University of Toronto, Canada Part I. Medical Restorations and Enhancements 2. Before and After: The Aesthetic as Evidence in 19th Century Medical Photography Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey,USA 3. Imaging the Criminal Body: 'Faces of Meth' and Galton's Composite Photographs Kristen M. Thomas-McGill Part II. Landscape and the Built Environment 4. Noise Abatement Zone: John Divola's Photographic Fulcrum Jason E. Hill, University of Delaware,USA 5. The Elusive Event: An Interview between Frank Gohlke and Rebecca Senf Rebecca Senf, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona,USA Part III. Manmade and Natural Disasters 6. Beyond Images of Melting Ice: Hidden Stories of People, Place, and Time in Repeat Photography ofGlaciersRodney Garrard, University of Bern, Switzerland and Mark Carey, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, USA 7. Natural Cycles: Naoya Hatakeyama's Photographs of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Lisa Sutcliffe, Milwaukee Art Museum,USA Part IV. Social "Improvements": Assimilation and Reform 8. Staging Emancipation: Race and Reconstruction in American Photographic Humor Tanya Sheehan, Colby College,USA p. Facing the Binary: Native American Students in the Camera's Lens Jacqueline Fear-Segal, University of East Anglia, UK Part V. From Two to Three: Before-and-After Time, Complicated 10. Beyond 'This-Caused-That': The Temporal Complexities of Before-and-After Photographs Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi, USA AfterwordJames Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

This exciting collection of historically astute essays recognizes the interval between serially taken photographs as far more than the intervention of time, but as the space where the power of photography is revealed. The book shows how the medium of photography has irrevocably shaped our modern perceptions of identity and time.