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Sumario: Introduction. Photography's Double Index (A Short History in Three Parts) / Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson -- Pt. 1. Beyond the Index -- Indexicality and the Concept of Medium Specificity / Mary Ann Doane -- Photography. Chance, and The Pencil of Nature / Robin Kelsey -- "A better example is a photograph": On the Exemplary Value of Photographs in C. S. Peirce's Reflection on Signs / Francois Brunet -- Moon Studies and Star Scratches / Sharon Harper -- Pt. 2. The History of Photography at Issue -- Peter Henry Emerson: The Mechanics of Seeing / Douglas R. Nickel -- Camera Lucida: Another Little History of Photography / Geoffrey Batchen -- The Hashem el Madani Project / Akram Zaatari -- Pt. 3. Photography as Totality -- A Photograph Is Never Alone / Blake Stimson -- In the Valley of the Blind / John Tagg -- Two Double Negatives / Jose Luis Falconi -- topologies / Lilla LoCurta and Bill Outcault -- Pt. 4. Positions -- Overexposure: Thoughts on the Triumph of Photography / Anne McCauley -- On the Ruins of Photographic Culture: The Politics of Photographic Form Today / John Roberts -- Reading Photographs Iconographically or Ichnographically / Lars Kiel Bertelsen -- Molecular Documents: Photography in the Post-Photographic Era, or How Not to Be Trapped into False Dilemmas / Jorge Ribalta -- Focus and Cross: Thoughts on the Changing Face of Japanese Contemporary Photography / Eric C. Shiner -- Photography Is Over, If You Want It / Eric Rosenberg -- Photography as the Medium of Reflection / Bernd Stiegler -- Correction / Fiona Tan.