A new edition of the definitive affordable title for students and teachers in the field of contemporary art photography.

Charlotte Cotton is Curator in Residence at the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, and has previously held senior posts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and in London The Photographers¿ Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others. She has held scholarly posts at Yale, NYU, The New School for Design and California College of Art.

Introduction ¿ 1. If This Is Art ¿ 2. Once Upon a Time ¿ 3. Deadpan ¿ 4. Something and Nothing ¿ 5. Intimate Life ¿ 6. Moments in History ¿ 7. Revived and Remade 8. Physical and Material