Picture industry : a provisional history of the technical image 1844-2018 / edited, with an introduction by Walead Beshty ; foreword by Maja Hoffmann, Tom Eccles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Maja Hoffmann and Tom Eccles -- Introduction: The commons in the age of its technological reproducibility / Walead Beshty -- Taken from here to where it came from and taken to a place and used in such a manner that it can only remain as a representation of what it was where it came from (1980) / Lawrence Weiner -- Introductory remarks and selected plates from Pencil of Nature (1844-46) / William Henry Fox Talbot -- A scene in a library: The first photographically illustrated book (1998) / Carol Armstrong -- The stereoscope and stereograph (1859) / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Selections from mechanism of human facial expression (1862) / Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne -- Photographs of the high Rockies in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. CCXXXII, No.39, September 1869 / John Samson [likely a pseudonym of Timothy H. O'Sullivan] -- Photography's discursive spaces (1986) / Rosalind E. Krauss -- Naming the view (1990) / Alan Trachtenberg -- United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, volume III: Mining industry (1870) / James D. Hague and Clarence King -- Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Vol. 1 (1857) / William H. Emory -- Prefatory note and preface to United States Geological Survey of the Territories, descriptive catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians (1877) / Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden and William Henry Jackson -- Colorchromes from the Detroit Photographic Company (1892-1903) / William Henry Jackson -- Carte de visite (1864) / Sojourner Truth -- Introduction to Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance (2015) / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- The golden Caribbean, Vol. II, No. 1, January 1904 / United Fruit Company -- The evidence of things not photographed: Slavery and historical memory in the British West Indies (2011) / Krista Thompson -- The other half and how they live: Story in pictures [Reconstruction of a magic lantern slide lecture presented at the Sixth Annual Convention of Christian Workers] (1891) / Jacob Riis -- How the other half lives: Studies among the tenements in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 6, December 1889 / Jacob Riis -- Inquiries into human faculty and its development (1883) / Francis Galton -- Physiological study of normal walking (1885) / Georges Gilles de la Tourette -- Notes on gesture (2000) / Giorgio Agamben -- Selections from Theoretical Study of Signalment (1896) / Alphonse Bertillon -- Bertillon system of criminal identification [selected by Cameron Rowland] (2018) / National Law Enforecement website --

Selection from Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1882) / Eadweard Muybridge -- Selections from Animal Locomotion (1887) / Eadweard Muybridge -- Iron horses: Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge, and the industrialized eye (2005) / John Ott -- Physiologie du mouvement: le vol des oiseaux (1890) / Étienne-Jules Marey -- Chronophotography (1899) / Étienne-Jules Marey -- Marey and the organization of work (1994) / Marta Braun -- Selections of X-ray photographs form Journal of Electrochemistry (1896-97) / Wilhelm Rn̲tgen -- On New kind of rays (1896) / Wilhelm Rn̲tgen -- Injured right hand of workman in the Rn̲tgen Rays in Medical Work (1897) / David Walsh -- Still from Workers Leaving the Lumir̈e Factory (1895) / Louis and Auguste Lumir̈e -- Still from Employees Leaving Williamson's Factory, Lancaster; Still from Employees Leaving Messrs Vickers & Maxim's in Barrow (1901) / Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon -- Preface to Motion Study: A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman (1911) / Frank B. Gilbreth -- Motion study photographs (1913-1917) / Frank B. Gilbreth -- Radiography, cinematography and the decline of the lens (1992) / Lisa Cartwright and Brian Goldfarb -- Selections from: Charities and The Commons, and The Survey, 1908-1913 / Lewis Hine -- The Homestead Plant: Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town, Vol. 4 (1910) / Lewis Hine -- Production - Reproduction (1922) / Ls̀zl ̤Moholy-Nagy -- War against war! (1924) / Ernst Friedrich -- Ernst Friedrich's pacifistic anarchsim (1987) / Douglas Kellner -- Der Mensch als Industriepalast (1926) / Fritz Kahn -- Selections from Das Leben des Menschen, Eine vokstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungeschichte des Menschen (1926-1931) / Fritz Kahn -- Photogrpahy (1927) / Siegfried Kracauer -- Perspective as symbolic form (1927) / Erwin Panofsky -- (Not) in place: The grid, or, cultural techniques of ruling spaces (2015) / Bernhard Siegert -- Dictionary: Man in Documents 4 (1929) / Georges Bataille -- Type 89 moving-image machine-gun camera, Kai 2, Serial No. 7967 manufactured by Rokuoh-sha [currently Konica Minolta Electronics Co., Ltd.] produced from 1933-44 -- Selections from Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (1930-32) / John Heartfield -- The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility (Second version) (1935-36) / Walter Benjamin.