Why photography matters as art as never before / Michael Fried.

Three beginnings
Jeff Wall and absorption ; Heidegger on worldhood and technology
Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the everyday
Barthes's Punctum
Thomas Struth's museum photographs
Jean-François Chevrier on the "tableau form" ; Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye
Portraits by Thomas Struth, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Luc Delahaye, and Roland Fischer ; Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's film Zidane
Street photography revisited : Jeff Wall, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Thomas Demand's allegories of intention ; "Exclusion" in Candida Höfer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Thomas Struth
"Good" versus "bad" objecthood : James Welling, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall
Conclusion : why photography matters as art as never before.