Shawn Michelle Smith is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the author of At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen and Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture, both also published by Duke University Press. Sharon Sliwinski is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario and author of Mandela's Dark Years: A Political Theory of Dreaming and Human Rights in Camera.

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction / Shawn Michelle Smith and Sharon Sliwinski  1 1. Photography's Weimar-Era Proliferatino and Walter Benjamin's Optical Unconscious / Andrés Mario Zervigón  32 2. "A Hiding Place in Waking Dreams": David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, and Walter Benjamin's "Little History of Photography" / Shawn Michelle Smith  48 3. Freud: The Photographic Apparatus / Sarah Kofman  75 4. "To Adopt": Freud, Photography, and the Optical Unconscious / Jonathan Fardy  81 5. The Politics of Contemplation / Zoe Leonard and Elisabeth Lebovici  93 6. Freud, Saturn, and the Power of Hypnosis / Mary Bergstein  104 7. On the Couch / Mignon Nixon  134 8. Vision's Unseen: On Sovereignty, Race, and the Optical Unconscious / Mark Reinhardt  174 9. Sligo Heads / Kristan Horton  223 10. Developing Historical Negatives: The Colonial Photographic Archive as Optical Unconscious / Gabrielle Moser  229 11. The Purloined Image / Laura Wexler  264 12. The Vancouver Carts: A Brief Mémoire / Kelly Wood  281 13. Vietnamese Photography and the Look of Revolution / Thy Phu  286 14. Shooting in the Dark: A Note on the Photographic Imagination / Sharon Sliwinski  321 15. Slow / Terri Kapsalis  339 Contributors  363 Index  367