Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Essex. Her books include Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (2007); Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory (1993); Mary Kelly, co-authored with Douglas Crimp and Homi Bhabha (1997). Writing Art History, co-authored with Stephen Melville, is forthcoming.

Iversen and Costello are also Co-Directors of the AHRC research project "Aesthetics after Photography."

Notes on contributors vi

1 Introduction: Photography after conceptual art 1
Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen

2 Auto-maticity: Ruscha and performative photography 12
Margaret Iversen

3 Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and deadpan photography 28
Aron Vinegar

4 Subject, object, mimesis: The aesthetic world of the Bechers' photography 50
Sarah E. James

5 Exit ghost: Douglas Huebler's face value 70
Gordon Hughes

6 Productive misunderstandings: Interpreting Mel Bochner's theory of photography 86
Luke Skrebowski

7 Roni Horn's Icelandic encyclopedia 108
Mark Godfrey

8 Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming 'Pictures' 130
Tamara Trodd

9 Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall's relation to nearly everything 153
Wolfgang Bruckle

10 Morning cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass 172
Christine Conley

Index 193