Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Picture-workers xiii
Introduction: Picture-problems 1
1 Circulating Collection Style: Pictures as Documents at the New York Public Library 25
2 The Museum Without Walls: The Museum of Modern Art and Photography's Double Duty 79
3 "Your Story in Pictures Leaves Nothing Untold": H. Armstrong Roberts and the Rise of American Stock Photography 131
4 The New Universal Collection: From Pictures to Digital Assets 187
Coda: Angels of History 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 279
Index 301

Diana Kamin is Advanced Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York. Her research has been published in Information & Culture, Journal of Visual Culture, and Artforum, among other publications.

"Argues that our contemporary treatment of the image as a circulating object was forged by three 20th century institutions: the museum, the library, and the stock photography agency"--