Featuring an accessible and engaging writing style, 16 Ways of Looking at a Photograph: Contemporary Theories explores key concepts that have shaped the interpretation of photography and photography itself. It begins with two important inventions–the development of the photographic negative and the capability to produce multiple prints–and then considers various theories from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The book concludes with an excursion into post-photography theory: the argument that in the digital era, photography as such is altered.