Palinode : an introduction to Photography degree zero / Geoffrey Batchen -- Re-reading Camera lucida / Victor Burgin -- The pleasure of the phototext / Jane Gallop -- What is a photograph? / Margaret Iversen -- Touching photographs : Roland Barthes's "mistaken" identification / Margaret Olin -- Buddha Barthes : what Barthes saw in photography (that he didn't in literature) / Jay Prosser -- Notes on love and photography / Eduardo Cadava and Paola Cortés-Rocca -- Barthes's Punctum / Michael Fried -- What do we want photography to be? : a response to Michael Fried / James Elkins -- Notes on the Punctum / Rosalind E. Krauss -- Camera lucida, circa 1980 / Gordon Hughes -- Black and blue : the shadows of Camera lucida / Carol Mavor -- Race and reproduction in Camera lucida / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Camera lucida: another little history of photography / Geoffrey Batchen