<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

Ambiguities, distortions, shifts / Marlene Kadar, Jeanne Perreault, and Linda Warley -- Not so innocent : vision and culpability in Weegee's photographs of children / Caroline Blinder -- Strange birth : reading hands, reflecting race in Richard Wright's 12 million Black voices / Petra Dreiser -- Documenting disasters : Rothstein's "steer skull" and the use of photographic evidence in environmental and political narratives / James Hewitson -- Something is happening : seeing it / Jeanne Perreault -- Ambivalent image : twisted use / Marlene Kadar -- Visualizing the rising : photography, memory, and the visual economy of the 1916 Easter rising / Justin Carville -- The promise of public housing : photographs and the history of the Chicago Housing Authority / D. Bradford Hunt, Michael Ensdorf, and Kathy M. Pilat -- "More than an observer" : Emmy Andriesse, Dutch underground photographer / Christl Verduyn and Conny Steenman-Marcuse -- Between the officer and the artist : Arnold Odermatt's aesthetic-forensic project / Thomas Stubblefield -- Passionate protest : lynching photography and appropriative counter-performances of the lynching ritual / Zoe Trodd -- Captured childhoods : photographs in Indian residential school memoir / Linda Warley -- Returning to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : the tower of faces ten years later / Laura Levitt.