Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Big Pictures -- Introduction -- 1.1. Dupinade, French caricature, 1831 / Patricia Mainardi -- 1.2. General Wool and His Troops in the Streets of Saltillo, 1847 / Martha A. Sandweiss -- 1.3. An Abolitionist Daguerreotype, New York, 1850 / Matthew Fox-Amato -- 1.4. Antietam Sketches and Photographs, 1862 / Anthony W. Lee -- 1.5. Barricades of Paris Commune, 1871 / Jeannene Przyblyski -- 1.6. Interview of Chevreul, France, 1886 / Thierry Gervais -- 1.7. Zapata and Salinas, Mexico, 1911 and 1991 / John Mraz -- 1.8. Photographer on the Western Front, 1917 / Caitlin Patrick -- 1.9. Sports Photomontage, France, 1926 / Michel Frizot -- 1.10. Public Execution of Ruth Meyer, Sing-Sing Prison, 1928 / Richard Meyer -- 1.11. Photo of Kellogg-Briand Pact Meeting, Paris, 1931 / Daniel H. Magilow -- 1.12. A Decisive Moment, France, 1932 / Catherine E, Clark -- 1.13. Republican Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936 / Sally Stein -- 1.14. Child in Warsaw Ghetto, 1943 / David Shneer -- 1.15. Flag-Raising, Iwo Jima, 1945 / Barbie Zelizer -- 1.16. Soviet War Photo, Crimea, 1942 / Alexander Nemerov -- 1.17. New York in Color, 1953 / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- 1.18. Rosa Parks Fingerprinted, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956 / Martin A. Berger -- 1.19. An Essay on Success in the USA, 1962 / Mary Panzer -- 1.20. Burning Monk, Saigon, 1963 / Diane Winston -- 1.21. Kennedy Assassination, Dallas, 1963 / David Lubin -- 1.22. Political Persecution, Red Square, Harbin, 1966 / Victoria Gao -- 1.23. Street Execution of a Viet Cong Prisoner, Saigon, 1968 / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites -- 1.24. Industrial Poisoning, Minamata, 1972 / Gennifer Weisenfeld -- 1.25. Police Beating, Los Angeles, 1992 / Christian Delage -- 1.26. The Situation Room, Washington, DC, 2011 / Liam Kennedy -- Pt. 2. Re-Thinking the History of News Pictures -- Introduction -- News Pictures and Press Genres -- 2.1. Not Just a Pretty Picture: Fashion as News / Justine De Young -- 2.2. Celebrity Photos and Stolen Moments: Witnessing the Lives of Others / Ryan Linkof -- 2.3. Pictorial Press Reportage and Censorship in the First World War / Ulrich Keller -- 2.4. Illustrating Sports, or the Invention of the Magazine / Thierry Gervais -- 2.5. After the Event: The Challenges of Crime Photography / Will Straw -- News Picture Media -- 2.6. News Pictures in the Early Years of Mass Visual Culture in New York: Lithographs and the Penny Press / Michael Leja -- 2.7. Beautiful Contradictions: News Pictures and Modern Magazines / Jornada Mendelson -- 2.8. "Public Forum of the Screen": Modernity, Mobility, and Debate at the Newsreel Cinema / Joseph Clark -- 2.9. "See it Now": Television News / Mike Conway -- 2.10. Collective Self-Representation and the News: Torture at Abu-Ghraib / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- News Picture Time -- 2.11. Adrift: The Time and Space of the News in Géricault's Le Radeau de La Méduse / Jordan Bear -- 2.12. Snap-Shot After Bullet Hit Gaynor / Jason E. Hill -- 2.13. Rotogravure and the Modern Aesthetic of News Reporting / Andrés Mario Zervigón -- 2.14. A Short History of Wire Service Photography / Zeynep Devrim Gürsel -- Speaking of News Pictures -- 2.15. "Famished for News Pictures": Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit / Jennifer Tucker -- 2.16. Staying Close to Power: Picturing the King's Entourage in Turn-of-the-Century Morocco / Patricia Goldsworthy-Bishop -- 2.17. Never Alone: Photo Editing and Collaboration in the History of News Pictures / Nadya Bair -- 2.18. Look at those Lollipops!: Integrating Color into News Pictures / Kim Timby -- News Picture Connoisseurship -- 2.19. Horace Vernet's Capture of the Smahla: Reportage and Actuality in the Early French Illustrated Press / Katie Hornstein -- 2.20. Appraising News Pictures: Awarding a Multifaceted Icon / Vincent Lavoie -- 2.21. An Era of Photographic Controversy: Edward Steichen at the MoMA / Kristen Gresh -- 2.22. Photojournalism as Formal Paradigm in Contemporary Art / Gaëlle Morel -- 2.23. Uneasy Witnesses: Broomberg, Chanarin, and Photojournalism's Expanded / Erina Duganne --