✚ What is "photography" and what is unique about the field of photography studies? ✚ How is the history of photography written, and what are its alternative histories? ✚ How was photography understood as a cultural phenomenon in the 19th–21st centuries? ✚ What is photography studies doing today, and what are the current issues in understanding photography? ✚ What questions have become particularly important for understanding photography in different cultural and historical contexts? ✚ What is photographic "indexicality," and what are the consequences of our belief in the veracity of photography? ✚ How has thinking about photography changed as photographic technologies have changed? ✚ How to write and think about photography?

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