Notes on contributors vi
1 Introduction: Photography after conceptual art 1
Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen
2 Auto-maticity: Ruscha and performative photography 12
Margaret Iversen
3 Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and deadpan photography 28
Aron Vinegar
4 Subject, object, mimesis: The aesthetic world of the Bechers' photography 50
Sarah E. James
5 Exit ghost: Douglas Huebler's face value 70
Gordon Hughes
6 Productive misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner's theory of photography 86
Luke Skrebowski
7 Roni Horn's Icelandic encyclopedia 108
Mark Godfrey
8 Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming 'Pictures' 130
Tamara Trodd
9 Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall's relation to nearly everything 153
Wolfgang Bruckle
10 Morning cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass 172
Christine Conley
Index 193