Dominic McIver Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Understanding Pictures (1996) and Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (2005), as well as books on computer art and the nature of art. His first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 124, which he used to document his family's migration from Scotland to Canada.

• List of Illustrations xiNotes on Author and Contributors xiiPreface xiiiWonderment to Puzzlement 1How to Do Things with Theory 17To Possess Other Eyes: The First Art 36Thinking Through Photographs: The Second Art 48A New Theory of Photography 65Lyricism: The Third Art 87The Knowing Eye 105Abstraction: The Fourth Art 114Crosscurrents and Boundary Conditions 125Appendix: the Skeptic’s Argument 133Comments Doing Justice to the Art in Photography 135Diarmuid CostelloFour Thoughts about Four Arts of Photography 147Cynthia A. FreelandNotes 157Index 174

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