Volume 1, Issue 2, 2008

Editorial

Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn
Geoffrey Batchen

Seductions and Flirtations: Photographs, Histories, Theories
Patrizia Di Bello

Reciting the Past in Northwest Alaska Photographic Work
Matthew Kurtz

The Virtual Life of Photography and Of Murder and Metamorphosis
Sarah J. Kember

Watching the Sky
Mitchell Whitelaw

Surely fades away: Polaroid Photography and the Contradictions of Cultural Value*
Peter Buse

* The research for this article has been generously supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK and the British Academy. Thanks also to Barbara Hitchcock and Jennifer Uhrhane at the Polaroid Collections, Waltham, MA., and Tim Mahoney at the Baker Library, Harvard.