Chapters :
1. The Self-Reflexive Camera (1986) ;
2. The Royal Road to Drawing - Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography (1981) ;
3. The Syntax of Reality - Photography's Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Wood
Engraving into an Art of Illusionism (1976) ;
4. Technology or Aesthetics - Alfred Stieglitz and Photogravure (1979) ;
5. The Eternal Moment - Photography and Time (1987) ;
6. Aethetics and Photography - Diana & Nikon: Essays on the
Aesthetic of Photography (1980) ;
7. The Subject Beautiful (1982) ;
8. Quintessences - Edward Weston's Search for Meaning (1986) ;
9. The Real Thing - Museums and Communications (1979) ;
10. Trashing the Media, Taking on the World (1985) ;
11. Looking at Literati - The Writer's Image (1981) ;
12. Starr Ockenga's Nudes - Some Notes on the genre (1983) ;
13. The Ethnocentric Icon (1981) ;
14. Icons or Ideology - Stieglitz and Hine (1978) ;
15. Propaganda and Persuasion - (FSA) (1984) ;
16. From the Studio to the Snapshot - An Immigrant Photographer of the 1920s (1977) ;
17. The Heart of the Ineffable (1986) ;
18. F. Holland Day (1981) ;
19. The Photographs of Jerome Liebling - A Personal View (1978) ;
20. Imagination, Phototechnics, and Chance - The Work of Barbara Crane (1981) ;
21. The Optical Fantasies of Barbara Kasten (1985) ;
22. Mysteries and Transformations - The Art of Carl Chiarenza (1987) ;
Notes; Bibliography; Index.