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Contents

Introduction
1Conceptual photography
Questions of identity
2Helmar Lerski: Portraits
Questions of identity
3Claude Cahun: Self portraits
4Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills
5Samuel Fosso: Self portraits
6Lucas Samaras: Unpentant Ego / Photo-transformations
7Gillian Wearing: Album (2003)
8Nikki S. Lee: Projects
9Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India
10Sophie Calle: The intimacy of human behaviour
Politcs and the message
11The relationships between photographs and text
Appropriation and originality
12Introduction to appropriation
13Andy Warhol: Appropriation
14Sherrie Levine: Appropriation
15Richard Prince: Appropriation
16Robert Heinecken: Appropriation
17Questioning truth through appropriation
Transience
18John Divola: Vandalism and Zuma
Juxtaposing realities
19Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home
20William Laven: War Models
21John Divola: Evidence of Aggression - From Continuity
Spatial forms
22Serge Tousignant: Spatial geometries
23John Pfahl: Landscapes
Examinations of photohistory
24James Welling: Conceptual photography
Narratives
25Duane Michels: The Spirit Leaves the Body (1968)

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