Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Picture-workers xiii
Introduction: Picture-problems 1
1 Circulating Collection Style: Pictures as Documents at the New York Public Library 25
2 The Museum Without Walls: The Museum of Modern Art and Photography's Double Duty 79
3 "Your Story in Pictures Leaves Nothing Untold": H. Armstrong Roberts and the Rise of American Stock Photography 131
4 The New Universal Collection: From Pictures to Digital Assets 187
Coda: Angels of History 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 279
Index 301