Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction: Critically Distant; The Possible Futures of Documentary Studies; Critical Humanism and Posthumanist Distance; What Is Critical About Distance?; Bibliography; Indexicality in the Age of the Sensor and Metadata; Indexicality and the Documentary Agenda; The "Post-photographic" Era; The Camera and Other Sensors; Metadata and Big Data; Software and Data Practice; Metadata and Images; Verification Protocols; Bibliography; Shot in the Dark: Nocturnal Philosophy and Night Photography

Reducing Distance, Embracing NightNight Vision: Photographing in the Dark; Conclusion; Bibliography; Approaches to Xianchang: Documenting the Real in Post-socialist China; The "Peasant" in Twentieth-Century China; A Documentary Approach Over the Turn of the Twenty-First Century; Xianchang in Documentary Film; Xianchang in Contemporary Art; Conclusion; Bibliography; Ai Weiwei: Grafting as a Documentary Tactic in Art; Ai Weiwei: The Power of (Grafting) Small Stories; Ai Weiwei: At a Critical Distance; Here and Now (Where Art Belongs); Bibliography

Unsatisfactory Devices: Legacy and the Undocumentable in ArtThe Document, Documentation, and Documentary; The Alternative Document: An Exhibition and Methodology; Closing and Re-criticalizing Distance; Light and Line: Archival Loss Redrawn; A Proposition; Bibliography; From Above: Critical Distance, Aerial Views, and Counter-Images; Robert Del Tredici: Overviews of the Bomb; Trevor Paglen: Circling Secrets; Conclusion; Bibliography; Phantom Rides as Images of the World Unfolding; Imagining Distances Traveled; Capturing the Continuous Flow of Motion

The Ghan (SBS, 2018): Folding, Flow, and Slow TVPhantom Ride (Daniel Crooks, 2016): Complexity-in-Divergence; Conclusion: Creating Critical Distances; Bibliography; Mobile Media: A Reliable Documentary Witness?; Introduction: Bearing Witness; Witnessing with, Within and Because of; Establishing a New Critical Distance; Mobile Media and Modes of Witnessing; Mobile Media and Image-Making; Affect and Impact; Conclusion; Bibliography; Redefining the "Document": Social-Media Photographs as Narrative, Performance, Habitude; Case Study: The Making and Sharing of Selfies

Epilogue: Photography in the "Post-Digital" AgeBibliography; Instagram as Archive: Constructing Experimental Documentary Narratives from Everyday Moments; Introduction; Personal, Reflective Filmmaking Using Mobile and Social Media; Curating and Remixing Personal Footage; Granularity and Constructing New Meaning from Databases; Critical Distance from the Self; Instagram as a Part of Wider Creative Practice; Conclusion; Bibliography; That Seagull Stole My Camera (and My Shot)!: Overlapping Metaphorical and Physical Distances in the Human-Animal-Camera Triad