Karen Beckman is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis. Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of German and Comparative Literature.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKaren Beckman and Liliane Weissberg1. From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the AuthorMarcy J. Dinius2. Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah CanyonlandsRoderick Coover3. “Watch How Dem Touris’ Like Fe Look”: Tourist Photography and Claude McKay’s JamaicaLeah Rosenberg4. Captured Things: Man Ray’s Object PhotographyJanine Mileaf5. Photography’s Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff’s Here Comes the New Photographer!Daniel H. Magilow6. The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous MenStuart Burrows7. Playing DollLiliane Weissberg8. Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy DebordTyrus Miller9. The Generation of PostmemoryMarianne Hirsch10. Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing’s Visual PracticeXiaojue Wang11. Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald’s Albums and the Aesthetics of Photographic ExchangeAdrian Daub12. Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland BarthesKaren Beckman

Karen Beckman is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis. Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of German and Comparative Literature.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKaren Beckman and Liliane Weissberg1. From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the AuthorMarcy J. Dinius2. Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah CanyonlandsRoderick Coover3. “Watch How Dem Touris’ Like Fe Look”: Tourist Photography and Claude McKay’s JamaicaLeah Rosenberg4. Captured Things: Man Ray’s Object PhotographyJanine Mileaf5. Photography’s Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff’s Here Comes the New Photographer!Daniel H. Magilow6. The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous MenStuart Burrows7. Playing DollLiliane Weissberg8. Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy DebordTyrus Miller9. The Generation of PostmemoryMarianne Hirsch10. Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing’s Visual PracticeXiaojue Wang11. Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald’s Albums and the Aesthetics of Photographic ExchangeAdrian Daub12. Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland BarthesKaren Beckman

Karen Beckman is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis. Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of German and Comparative Literature.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKaren Beckman and Liliane Weissberg1. From the Birth of Photography to the Death of the AuthorMarcy J. Dinius2. Picturing the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell and the Divergent Paths of Art and Science in the Representation of the Colorado River and Utah CanyonlandsRoderick Coover3. “Watch How Dem Touris’ Like Fe Look”: Tourist Photography and Claude McKay’s JamaicaLeah Rosenberg4. Captured Things: Man Ray’s Object PhotographyJanine Mileaf5. Photography’s Linguistic Turn: On Werner Graeff’s Here Comes the New Photographer!Daniel H. Magilow6. The Power of What Is Not There: James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous MenStuart Burrows7. Playing DollLiliane Weissberg8. Situating Images: Photography, Writing, and Cinema in the Work of Guy DebordTyrus Miller9. The Generation of PostmemoryMarianne Hirsch10. Picturing the Specter of History: Zhang Ailing’s Visual PracticeXiaojue Wang11. Sphinxes without Secrets: W. G. Sebald’s Albums and the Aesthetics of Photographic ExchangeAdrian Daub12. Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland BarthesKaren Beckman