Foreword / John Mulvany -- Acknowledgments / Denise Miller -- Collecting American and US-resident photography as art + idea / Denise Miller -- Hundred different stories : the art of photography / Eugenia Parry -- Documentary photography : past + present / Naomi Rosenblum -- Professional and commercial photography / Rod Slemmons -- Photography and science : conspirators / F. David Peat -- Spaces for the self : the symbolic imagery of place / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Portraiture : a process of self-discovery / Ed Paschke -- City : harbor of humanity / Franz Schulze -- Photographers' biographies / AnJanette Brush.