Presentation. An anthology of writings that at different points call into question the role of the photographic image in our day to day life, in the media, in digital society, in books, in magazines, in art and journalism, in exhibitions, on billboards, in posters and to a lesser degree, in film. This book also includes classic essays on the photograph by Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, and John Berger, among the more than thirty essays.