Foreword / John Mulvany -- Acknowledgments / Denise Miller -- Collecting American and US-resident photography as art + idea / Denise Miller -- A hundred different stories: The art of photography / Eugenia Parry -- Documentary photography: Past + present / Naomi Rosenblum -- Professional and commercial photography / Rod Slemmons -- Photography and science: Conspirators / F. David Peat -- Spaces for the self: The symbolic imagery of place / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Portraiture: A process of self-discovery / Ed Paschke -- The city: Harbor of humanity / Franz Schulze -- Photographers' biographies / AnJanette Brush