Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; 1 Photography's Time Zones; PART ONE MEDICAL RESTORATIONS AND ENHANCEMENTS; 2 Before and After: The Aesthetic as Evidence in Nineteenth-Century Medical Photography; 3 Imaging the Criminal Body: "Faces of Meth" and Galton's Composite Photographs; PART TWO LANDSCAPE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT; 4 "Noise Abatement Zone": John Divola's Photographic Fulcrum; 5 The Elusive Event: Frank Gohlke in Conversation with Rebecca Senf; PART THREE NATURAL AND UNNATURAL DISASTERS

6 Beyond Images of Melting Ice: Hidden Histories of People, Place, and Time in Repeat Photography of Glaciers7 Natural Cycles: Naoya Hatakeyama's Photographs of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami; PART FOUR SOCIAL "IMPROVEMENTS": ASSIMILATION AND REFORM; 8 Staging Emancipation: Race and Reconstruction in American Photographic Humor; 9 Facing the Binary: Native American Students in the Camera's Lens; PART FIVE FROM TWO TO THREE: BEFORE AND-AFTER TIME, COMPLICATED; 10 Beyond "This-Caused-That": The Temporal Complexities of Before-and-After Photographs; Afterword; Index