Introduction: Finding Appropriate Distance

Part One: The Question of the Image in Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives

Rethinking Riis

Reviewing the Image

Part One Conclusion

Part Two: Southern Poverty in Word and Image: Three Depression-Era Photographic Essays

"Poverty Viewed at a Distance": You Have Seen Their Faces

"A Tripod of Photographs, Captions, and Text": An American Exodus

"If It Hurts You, Be Glad of It": Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Part Two Conclusion

Part Three: John Berger and Jean Mohr's Restored Photography

Toward a Political Photography

The Ways Photographs Are Used: Expressive, Redial, and Contextualized Images

In the Context of Writing

Part Three Conclusion

Epilogue: Giving Cameras to Kids.