Challenging the hitherto most influential accounts of the medium, this book argues that photography has never been a single, selfsame thing and that its invention irreversibly transformed our perception of the world along with our relationship to time and to death.

Hagi Kenaan is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Present Personal (2005) and The Ethics of Visuality (2013).

Introduction
I: Photography's Nature: The Picture
II: The Butades Complex
III: Photography and the Death of God
IV: Photography's Goodbyes