| Introduction | |
| 1 | Introduction to photographic trends |
| Geographical spread of photography | |
| 2 | The global spread of photography |
| Geographical spread of photography | |
| 3 | Cartes de visite: Backs: Geographical spread |
| The end of commercial analog photography | |
| 4 | The end of commercial analog photography |
| 5 | Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness - Photography at the End of the Analogue Era |
| 6 | John Cyr: Developer Trays |
| The rise of digital photography | |
| 7 | The rise of digital photography |
| The rise of AI | |
| 8 | The institutional acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) imagery |
| The rise of photography departments within museums and art galleries | |
| 9 | A history of photographic galleries |
| Museums | |
| 10 | Museums and photography |
| 11 | Museums and the amateur |
| Challenges to professional photography | |
| 12 | Reasons Why Professional Photographers Cannot Work for Free |
| Stock photography | |
| 13 | Challenges to stock photography |
| Facial recognition | |
| 14 | Facial recognition and historical photographs |
| The New Pictorialism | |
| 15 | Examples of the New Pictorialism |
| The fragmentation of genre | |
| 16 | Genre studies: Introduction |
| 17 | The fragmentation of genre |
| 18 | Photographic genres and intention |
| Aesthetics and photography | |
| 19 | The aesthetics of conflict |
| Disjunctions | |
| 20 | Temporal disjunctions |
| 21 | Technical disjunctions |
| 22 | Periods, styles, movements and disjunctions |
| Gradations of content | |
| 23 | Observation, intervention and creation |
| Non-canonical photography | |
| 24 | Non-canonical photography |
| Series | |
| 25 | The tyranny of series, typologies and editions |
| The ubiquitous camera | |
| 26 | Ubiquitous Photography |
| 27 | The contemporary street and surveillance |
| 28 | Trevor Paglen: Aerial photographs of US government agencies (2014) |
| 29 | Drone-borne photography |
| 30 | Introduction to EXIF and C2PA |
| The quest for novelty | |
| 31 | The continual quest for novelty |
| 32 | New forms of photographic light based imagery |
| 33 | Intentions and motivations |
| Introduction | |
| 1 | Introduction to photographic trends |
| Geographical spread of photography | |
| 2 | The global spread of photography |
| Geographical spread of photography | |
| 3 | Cartes de visite: Backs: Geographical spread |
| The end of commercial analog photography | |
| 4 | The end of commercial analog photography |
| 5 | Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness - Photography at the End of the Analogue Era |
| 6 | John Cyr: Developer Trays |
| The rise of digital photography | |
| 7 | The rise of digital photography |
| The rise of AI | |
| 8 | The institutional acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) imagery |
| The rise of photography departments within museums and art galleries | |
| 9 | A history of photographic galleries |
| Museums | |
| 10 | Museums and photography |
| 11 | Museums and the amateur |
| Challenges to professional photography | |
| 12 | Reasons Why Professional Photographers Cannot Work for Free |
| Stock photography | |
| 13 | Challenges to stock photography |
| Facial recognition | |
| 14 | Facial recognition and historical photographs |
| The New Pictorialism | |
| 15 | Examples of the New Pictorialism |
| The fragmentation of genre | |
| 16 | Genre studies: Introduction |
| 17 | The fragmentation of genre |
| 18 | Photographic genres and intention |
| Aesthetics and photography | |
| 19 | The aesthetics of conflict |
| Disjunctions | |
| 20 | Temporal disjunctions |
| 21 | Technical disjunctions |
| 22 | Periods, styles, movements and disjunctions |
| Gradations of content | |
| 23 | Observation, intervention and creation |
| Non-canonical photography | |
| 24 | Non-canonical photography |
| Series | |
| 25 | The tyranny of series, typologies and editions |
| The ubiquitous camera | |
| 26 | Ubiquitous Photography |
| 27 | The contemporary street and surveillance |
| 28 | Trevor Paglen: Aerial photographs of US government agencies (2014) |
| 29 | Drone-borne photography |
| 30 | Introduction to EXIF and C2PA |
| The quest for novelty | |
| 31 | The continual quest for novelty |
| 32 | New forms of photographic light based imagery |
| 33 | Intentions and motivations |