Photography is a ubiquitous part of the public sphere. Yet we rarely stop to think about the important role that photography plays in helping to define what and who constitute the public.

1. Melissa Miles, 'Introduction: Photography and Its Publics' Part I: Photography and the Provocation of the Public 2. Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, 'Photography and Public Culture' Part II: Photography, Publics and Counterpublics 3. Andrés Mario Zervigón, 'Photography, Truth and the Radicalized Public Sphere in Weimar Germany' 4. Edward Welch, '"Match nous a raconté une histoire": Thinking with Roland Barthes about Photography, Publics and the Exercise of Power in Post-war France' 5. Tom Allbeson, 'Prehistories of Visual Activism: Photography, Counterpublics and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Post-war Britain' Part III: Within and Beyond the National Public Sphere 6. Melissa Miles, 'Photography, Aboriginal Rights and the 1967 Australian Referendum' 7. Angeles Donoso Macaya, 'A Little History of Photographic Displacements: from Chile from within (1990) to Chile desde adentro (2015)' Part IV: Human Rights and the Ethics of Spectatorship 8. Thy Phu, 'Afterimages of S-21: Distant and Proximate Spectatorship and the Legacies of Cold War Human Rights' 9. Rebecca A. Adelman, 'Hospitable Looking: Towards a Different Way of Seeing the War in Syria' Part V: Global Media Publics 10. Paul Frosh, 'Is Commercial Photography a Public Evil? Beyond the Critique of Stock Photography' 11. Michele Zappavigna and Sumin Zhao, 'Selfies and recontextualization: Still life self-imaging in social media' Afterword 12. Edward Welch, 'Photography's Interdisciplinary Publics: A Tribute to Professor Andrea Noble'